Our flexible friends need backing

Article Abstract:

Nurses have long expressed concerns about the capacity of the discipline to combine care with the demands for effectiveness. A Help the Aged and RCN report, Dignity On The Ward, also fuels those concerns, as the findings portrayed contemporary nurses as uncaring and sometimes offensive and abusive. However nurses should not be criticized for losing their caring focus as the complexities and organization of health care environments can suppress the potential to care. Instead, education in caring is required so that nurses can reflect the changing needs of patients, striking a balance between professionalism, technique and distance and connecting on a more human and personal level.

Social aspects

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The Peplau legacy

Article Abstract:

Psychiatric nurse, Hildegard Peplau has revolutionised nursing practice. Her theory, published in 1949, emphasises the interpersonal relationship between patient and nurse. She attributes the book's impact to her rejection of the observational nursing approach. From 1947-1974 she concentrated on psychiatric nursing. She considers interaction of social, cultural, biological and psychological factors the cause of mental illness. Future psyciatric nursing should emphasise research into human responses and nursing interventions.

Peplau, Hildegard

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Fighting talk

Article Abstract:

Nursing provided emotional liberty and physical security, recalls columnist and former nurse Claire Rayner. She feels that happiness comes from looking outwards, rather than being introverted.

Rayner, Claire

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