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A nurse's place is at the bedside

While delighted that Hay chose to communicate directly with the nursing profession, I am dismayed by his comments concerning nursing in general, nursing research in particular, and specifically the role of men in nursing. For the benefit of readers who do not subscribe to Nursing Standard, Hay contends that an "increasingly male leadership" is "frogmarching" nursing towards clinical autonomy against the wishes of the "rank and file." He is particularly dismissive of nurses participating in research, apparently because we may not "have got an A-level in maths or science" or be familiar with the term "correlation of bi-variant data." He suggests that nursing sisters should drop the "pseudo-managerial gibberish" of care . . . [Full text of this article]

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