Nursing care scares and Moral Panic
Nursing, Care scares and Moral Panic. The number and tone of reports of poor quality care (e.g. Simmons 2011) especially, since the Mid Staffs NHS trust inquiry but by no means is defined by it, may...
View Article‘Moral Failing’ in Nursing?
The NHS is often in the news, and not always for the right reasons. Health care staff are working hard to keep the ship afloat but do so often at great personal cost due to stress and burnout. Unison...
View ArticleWhy do nurses behave as they do?
Subject Positions Theory. Why do individual nurses behave as they do? SPT tries to explain how ‘subjects’ will behave in certain situations. It can be used to explore what ‘positions’ we take up and...
View ArticleAction Nursing? Addressing politics and ideology?
I read this http://www.cost-ofliving.net/a-case-for-action-sociology/ a while ago, and I published this on the one dimensional state of UK nurse education,...
View ArticleSustainability – what can a nurse do?
Sustainability – what can a nurse do? This appears to be a common question, perhaps indicating that the debate has moved on from questioning the scientific basis for both climate change and the data...
View ArticleDeveloping the Concept of Sustainability in Nursing
“NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that has been submitted for publication in Nursing Philopsohy. If accepted, changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing,...
View ArticleThe missing two C’s – commodity and critique
http://tinyurl.com/the-missingtwoCs This is the link to the published article in the Journal of Research in Nursing. This discussion paper argues for understanding nursing care as a commodity within...
View ArticleA manifesto for Action Nursing
A manifesto for Action Nursing (Acknowledgement: Many thanks to Graham Scambler for his work on action sociology which inspired this manifesto). “NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that has...
View ArticleHow responsible am I for my health 2
How responsible am I for my health? The answer to that question from the dominant discourse is an overwhelming “very”. This response sits alongside more scholarly understandings of the social...
View ArticleThe More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. Part 1
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. Charles Eisenstein (2013) North Atlantic Books. Berkeley. This book should be required reading for all. Student nurses especially interested in...
View ArticleManifesto
This manifesto calls for a social movement for political activism by nurses and other health professionals, to address inequalities in health and the social inequalities that highly structure, but do...
View ArticleThere is a critical need for Socio-Political awareness among undergraduate...
There is a need for Critical Socio-Political awareness among undergraduate student nurses. “For the remainder of this century, the most worthy goal that nurses can select is that of arousing their...
View ArticleThe Transition to Professional Practice. The reality for the Newly Qualified...
Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash The current context of nursing is complex. The Health and Social Care Act (2012), Deficit Reduction targets (‘Austerity’), Brexit, the NHS funding gap and Trust...
View ArticleSocio-Political awareness among undergraduate student nurses.
Socio-Political awareness among undergraduate student nurses. “For the remainder of this century, the most worthy goal that nurses can select is that of arousing their passion for a kind of...
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