This Is Who We Are: Promoting Professional Behaviors and Civility in Nursing Education

General practice nursing: who is cherishing this workforce?

The remodelling of the NHS requires a strong general practice nurse (GPN) workforce within general practice. The challenges facing general practice nursing are set within the current policy context and recent available evidence and illustrated by drawing upon the experience of a current GPN working in London. It is argued that there is a need to support the professional development of GPNs and ...

Who do we think we are: interdisciplinary dissonance and the development of professional identity

The development of professional identity is something which all students entering a vocational profession will encounter, and this is particularly so within health care where health professionals are expected to work as part of a team rather than as individual and isolated practitioners. Alongside this, students will develop perceptions relating to the roles, responsibilities, and even behaviou...

This is ‘ defence ’ nursing

Since 2001 military nurses have successfully supported military operations in deployed field hospitals in both Iraq and Afghanistan. These deployments have presented unique challenges for military nurses. This article reviews the literature on the experience of nurses during these deployments and, using a thematic analysis approach, aims to understand their experience. The results provide an in...

Nursing education: seeking critical-reflexive education and professional competencies.

The study describes changes that are noted in students during training and which contribute to define a professional profile. We carried out a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, based on dialectics as a theoretical-methodological framework. The data was obtained from documented analysis and through focal groups with teachers, students and service nurses. The results show...

Who Is This Man?