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In Someone Else's Shoes
An experience of psychiatric nursing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The relatively rigid structures of the medical and nursing professions hamper the development of an adequate mutual understanding of the experiences and contributions of each in the care of patients. It is not uncommon for medical staff in psychiatric institutions to be patronising in their attitudes to work done by nurses; and vice versa. McGuire, in her submission to the Report of the Royal Commission on the NHS (1979) commented that “decisions made by nurses may go unrecognised by doctors and even by nurses themselves”.1 Such failure to recognise decisions is symptomatic of an underestimation of the role of nurses in general.
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O'Brian, C., Bruggen, P. & Dunne, C. (1985) Extra meetings: a tool for decisions and therapy. Journal of Adolescence, 8, 255–261.Google Scholar
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