Reawaken your sense of vocation by remembering nursing's history.

摘要

I recently heard scientist James Lovelock on the radio commenting that science had become a career choice rather than a vocation, just like nursing. Unpopular as I might be in stating this, I cannot help feeling he might have a point. I remember during my own Project 2000 education programme that the idea of nursing as a vocation was explicitly expelled from the classroom. This reflects the feminist slant that has influenced the academic development of nursing in the UK; the word "vocation" has too much of a religious connotation, an association with a history where nurses were perceived as subservient to doctors.