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Nursing's claim on caring as its professional hallmark requires articulation of the ways in which nursing and caring are uniquely integral. Interpreting nursing within a context of human bonding clarifies the contradiction between nursing's legitimate status as a professional service and its chosen identity of caring. Instrumental friendship, derived from the framework of human bonding, is proposed as a metaphor to connect the theory and practice worlds of nursing as caring.
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