The study of nurses attitudes to patients (and to each other) has reached the point where individuals are benefitting and the subject is being fairly widely discussed, but where little action and little change is taking place in hospitals. If the study of attitudes is to have an impact, and ...
The attitude a nurse has towards a patient is one of the most important factors influencing the standard of care patients receive. But a nurse's attitudes to patients are influenced by the attitudes of senior and junior staff. Attitudes between staff and attitudes of staff to patients are, in reality, ...
This guide is for nurses and their colleagues who wish to explore the subject of nurse's attitudes to their patients. It is addressed in particular to nurses with some measure of responsibility for staff or student management who would like to start a discussion group around this subject.
The attitudes that nurses adopt towards patients can be created by a number of different pressures, and they can effect the type of care patients receive. The King's Fund undertook an attitude project and then discussed the possibility of finding out what nurses' attitudes were through a series of discussion ...