The needs of a patient in severe status asthmaticus: experiences of a nurse-patient in an intensive care unit.

Biopsychosocial being is now accepted in nursing as a term which can be used to describe any human being. This is an account of what it means, illustrated in the life of one person. Pilar Arcas Ruiz is a Spanish nurse who left medical education to train as a nurse, but later completed the requirements for medical qualification in order to use it when necessary to advance nursing in Spain.