ABSTRACT

Nursing must become a research-based profession. Report of the Committee on Nursing, 1972

In 1948 Dr Cohen dissented from certain parts of the report on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses and wrote his own minority report because he maintained that the majority report had failed to examine the key problems of the future demand for health services and the changing role of the hospitals. Until these problems were examined it was impossible to decide on the function of the nurse; Dr Cohen therefore urged further research (see Chapter 15).