Abstract
Lessons from the experience of a sociology instructor in a nursing school are shared as follows: A nurse understands a patient as a human being and cares for him/her on the basis of this understanding. For the purpose, nursing science adopts various concepts from other disciplines and classifies patients. problems as nursing diagnosis. In addition, nursing theorists introduce various theories from other sciences and attempt to promote nursing as a subsection of anthropology. Medical sociology focuses on the medical society and the functions of medicine in societies. Nursing focuses on the society to which a patient belongs in order to understand and care for him/her. What nursing students need is sociological imagination to understand a patient as a human being. Sociological imagination can be better cultivated by basic sociology than special applied sociology such as medical sociology.
