The essence of nursing is ______.
a. delivering effective care to adults, children, families and/or whole communities
b. working in partnership with individual people, groups of people or the families and carers of those people
c. helping individuals to achieve or maintain the best health, independence and quality of life possible
d. all of these
Ans: D
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