When Stories Are Missing, Nursing Becomes Impersonal

Daybook February 01

When nursing education overlooks patient stories, care becomes a task rather than a calling. Nurse educators play a critical role in restoring caring as core nursing knowledge.

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Nursing is often taught through skills, protocols, and outcomes.
These are necessary—but they are not sufficient.

Anne Boykin reminds us that nursing education is not something delivered to students, but something studied with them.

To co-study nursing means recognizing caring as knowledge, not merely as attitude or kindness.

At the center of this knowledge lies one essential condition:
knowing the story of the one being nursed.

Without that story, tasks may still be completed.

But the call of nursing is easily missed, and practice becomes impersonal.

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One Line for Nurses & Learners:
If we do not know the story, we will miss the call of nursing.

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