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 if it is to bring about change, then initially it can only take place among nurses in hospitals. In order to aid this process, teams of all grades of nurses were set up and guidelines defined to ensure that these teams were supported in their discussions of attitudes, with the ultimate aim of spreading positive attitudes to patients throughout their hospital.
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Pagination: 50p. + appendices; An account of how teams of nurses from six hospitals came together to design projects to help them understand more fully their attitudes to their patients and to each other.