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Nurses are relying on stories of empathy and compassion to describe their role at the expense of explaining the skills and abilities required to carry out the job, a UK healthcare academic has claimed.
Focussing on the characteristics of people who hold nursing posts means the profession is excluding important elements of their work – such as clinical judgement – said professor Alison Leary, chair healthcare and workforce modelling at London Southbank University.
Speaking about the problems facing specialist nurses and the profession more widely, Professor Leary said that relying on this “virtue script” contributed to a lack of understanding about the complexity of the role.
“If you think about nursing, people think about the characteristics of the person doing that, which is a good thing,” she said at the Florence Nightingale Foundation annual conference.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/sp...e-in-nhs-policy-says-academic/5083307.article
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Focussing on the characteristics of people who hold nursing posts means the profession is excluding important elements of their work – such as clinical judgement – said professor Alison Leary, chair healthcare and workforce modelling at London Southbank University.
Speaking about the problems facing specialist nurses and the profession more widely, Professor Leary said that relying on this “virtue script” contributed to a lack of understanding about the complexity of the role.
“If you think about nursing, people think about the characteristics of the person doing that, which is a good thing,” she said at the Florence Nightingale Foundation annual conference.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/sp...e-in-nhs-policy-says-academic/5083307.article
(free registration required)