Fourteen years ago an article appeared in the American Journal of Nursing appraising the position nursing then occupied as a profession.' That article was written just as the war effort had reached its greatest effectiveness and just before hostilities came to an end. Now, more than a decade later, it seems appropriate to re-examine the status of nursing and to focus this new appraisal on the same seven criteria which were used then.
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Bixler et al. (1959) studied this question.