Abstract
This research outlined how the nursing education of patients grew from the end of World War II to the 1980s, and examined its various implications using documentary research methodologies centered on collecting, interpreting, and analyzing archives. From the standpoint of patient education, we aimed to establish a more effective setup within continuing practice, emphasizing the basic principle of moving from a nurse-centered to a patient-centered approach and incorporating an interdisciplinary methodology combined with practical thinking centered on behavioral sciences and self-care. This is the process of moving from the provision of abstract and generalized to specific and individualized information; teacher-taught to mutually supportive relationships; unidirectional leadership to practice based on behavioral science; and issue resolution to clarification. By adapting to practical action in this way, patient education has grown methodologically both from an interdisciplinary perspective and as an independent field of study.
