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I have no essay yet, this was my debate
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Written out speech: Good afternoon everyone, today we are going to debate if Nurses are handmaidens for doctors. We believe that nurses are handmaidens for doctors and not only for them……. I would like to start with defining the key words of this statement. In several dictionaries handmaiden is defined as a female servant or personal assistant. What caught my attention about this was the fact that is gives a gender within the definition, as we are now in the year 2003 and gender plays less of a role in relation to what profession we choose Helen and I have chosen not to concentrate to much on that part of the definition. As for what a nurse is defined as we found in several dictionaries a definition very close to: “A nurse is a person that provides care for the ill or injured people.” Our own developed definition, as the affirmative party, of nurses as handmaidens for doctors is that a nurse is a person who takes care of the ill and injured by assisting others including doctors. To fully understand this concept of “taking care” we have to take into account what we have learned about what care is and also what health and being healthy means. We have been listening and discussing these over the last few weeks in tutorials and lectures from all subjects. Being healthy is physical status that can be different for every individual. Even though this is the case the Health Care System is set–up to provide services, to try and reach the status of Health and feeling healthy, for every individual in our society. The role of the Nurse in this health system is to assist, by taking care of the patient, in getting the patient as close to his/hers “desired healthy status” as is possible.
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