BMJ 1995;311:872 (30 September)

Letters

Senior nurses are out of touch

EDITOR,--Jane Salvage's attempts to examine what is happening to nursing is notable for its rejection of the past.1 The contributions of Jacqueline Short (a nurse who became a doctor) and Ann Bradshaw (a lecturer in nursing), both with a different view,2 are said to show shaky reasoning and nostalgia for a mythical golden age.1 M Barton3 rejects Hay's assertion4 that the nursing leadership is "frog-marching" nursing towards clinical autonomy (and research) against the wishes of the "rank and file." Our experience is that this is the case--not for every nurse, and clearly not for Barton, but for many. Acceptance of autonomy seems to be limited by an accountability that is equated with fear. This is engendered by a disciplinary regime often imple-mented by those who shout loudest on professionalism and relations with medicine.

Unlike the medical hierarchy, leaders in nursing rarely care for patients routinely in the same context as . . . [Full text of this article]


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What's happening to nursing?
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