A Moment of Nursing: A Case Study

Introduction
What is nursing?  According to Chinn and Kramer (1991) nursing is generally seen as a helping process with its primary focus on interpersonal interactions between a nurse and another individual.  They identify some common elements in nursing, such as ideas about the nature of nursing, the person, health, society and environment.  However, I believe that when nurses say what their nursing really is and means to them, it moves out of these boundaries and becomes a very personal, subjective and self-defined concept.