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Provision of individualized care is dependent on knowing the patient as a person. Three factors contributed to individualized care: congruent societal and health care values; commonalities of patient needs in all settings; and primacy of caring through knowing the patient. Role modeling by mature nurses appears to have been of prime importance in the transmission of this way of nursing.
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