The nurse actively uses self to achieve the moral ideal when caring for a patient with mental illness. Which nursing theorist is the nurse implementing?
1. Patricia Benner
2. Martha Rogers
3. Hildegard Peplau
4. Florence Nightingale
4. Florence Nightingale
Explanation:
Florence Nightingale believed that the nurse achieves "the moral ideal" when using "the whole self " to establish a caring relationship with the patient. While the other answer choices are all nurse theorists, these individuals did not emphasize "the moral ideal" as Nightingale did.
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