Nurse - I Want My Mummy

"The Study comprised of a modified activity sampling of nurses' duties. The results showed that with proper managment the nurses in the wards had time avaible to be able to care for the children's emotinal needs." hawthorn 1974

reading through some old nursing research and textbooks at the uni and finding it funny how modern research still finds the same findings. there seems to be something distincly different about nursing research and textsbook pre 1980's it's more emotinal and human, there seems to be a more postive motivation, that the knowledge being expressed can be utilised to help people. i think weve lost something stiriving to be too professional to show the unqiuness of nursing, in our attempts to push it forward and get it recongized as soemthing vauled against the medical profession, where losing our basic skills of kindness.

It even states in the book that nurses should spend less time with domestic tasks. that other workers can do this and that we spend more time with the children. ha reminds me of one of my lecturers and i always look up to the older nurses, as i find the younger one's who have only been quailfied in the last decade worry a tad too much about EBP and not about the kid. seems funny as it must have been the older genration who've pushed for nursing to go into this direction.