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What's happening to nursing?

British nursing has notched up many successes in the past decade. Nursing practice, underpinned by radical reform of nursing education, has shifted from a task centred approach towards personalised care; other innovations have improved the quality of care; and research and critical thinking are flourishing. It is an impressive record.

Against this backdrop, understanding why Christine Hancock, that most lucid and reasonable of union leaders, should find herself leading the Royal College of Nursing in an assault on the government may be difficult. Yet, far from feeling buoyed up by their recent achievements, nurses are experiencing what Carpenter calls "a much deeper sense of betrayal than the difference between 1% and 3% in pay (p 338)."¹ Something has gone badly wrong. While nurses' concern over pay is real, it has also acted as a trigger for their discontent over . . . [Full text of this article]

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