Self-sacrifice, self-transcendence and nurses' professional self.
Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals October 2005 Elizabeth J Pask
In this paper I elaborate a notion of nurses' professional self as one who is attracted towards intrinsic value. My previous work in 2003 has shown how nurses, who see intrinsic value in their work, experience self-affirmation when they believe that they have made a difference to that which they see to have value. The aim of this work is to reveal a further aspect of nurses' professional self....