I am a nurse in the UK. Nursing environment is hard to cope with in Britain. Managers and politicians regulate and some nurses function in some environments as " round pegs in a square holes" and no one is happy. A disparity exists; expectations and what nurses can cope with in reality appear to be two different things. I am trying to understand it and so I am completing a research in nurse identity and I am stuck. I would appreciate any descriptive statements based on your views. The views do not need to be politically correct, but they need to yours; in synchronisation with your own believe system. I want nurses to tell their perspectives on things in their lives. I will not quote anyone personally, this is anonymous. The aim is to cover the following topics as widely and as fully as possible. I need as many statements as possible so please ask any nurse you know to tell me their perspective. Once I have lots of statements I will extract trends. PLEASE HELP to answer any of the following questions or provide a statement in response to it:
1. As a nurse what do you really think about accountability and what does it mean to you as a nurse or as a human being? How does it affect your behaviour in professional or personal life? Does it worry you?
2. As a nurse do you strive or avoid autonomy? What does it mean to you and how do you view it?
3. Please describe your identity as a nurse:
Who are you (feel free to describe)?
What drives you to get up in the morning and still wanting to work as a nurse?
What do you value and care about most when you are nursing?
What do you dislike when you are nursing?
Who in reality gives you support so you continue being a nurse?
What do you do when you are angry or disagree with the way nursing is organised or managed?
I appreciate your help, Katarina
If you do not wish to publish your views please email me directly.
Possible her name is Katarina Parr, but my bet is that it's not her actual name. Katherine Parr was the 6th wife of King Henry VIII and I'm guessing that's a play on that name.
Possibly true, and I did see that, but even so. You can Google any name and find many of the same; she's not the only Catherine Parr since Henry's time. :)
You'd think that somebody who is more than likely copying questions from an essay they've been assigned would manage to not massacre the English language. **********What does autonomy mean to your everyday nurse life?**********
Just post a scan of your homework. I am not sure you should use my answers though because despite my honesty, my answers are a cardinal sin to use in nursing school.
Not sure I understood you correctly. Sorry if my answer appears odd. This is not for an essay; my essay years have long past. I research a lot. I am hoping to learn what my peers general understanding on this is. Not from a literature. I know what literature says and my own understanding of this somewhat differs. I finding that nurses experience the accountability differently.
Sorry, I am new to holding these kind of conversations. I will try to learn fast. This is not a homework or essay. I am a working nurse that does a bit of a research on a side. I concern myself with nurse identity and its motivational aspect, autonomy and accountability. At present I am collecting statements about these topics and hope to look at it from nurses' practical or experiential perspective rather than at what theory says or what it should be. I am not looking for definitions. I am being encouraged to create hypothesis for a new research and thought that putting questions to my peers would lead me somewhere. I find that some nurses deliberately avoid accountability because their is so much that they can be caught up in. Their fear is that they lose their job and their livelihood. Is this the case with many nurses?
Sorry again; It is my real name and sadly no relation to that Catherine! I married the name. I put my name down when I registered with the site and when I realised what I done I tired to change it but was unsuccessful. I posted a request for help about changing my user name and my edit button did not allow it.
I do not think your answers are a cardinal sin at all! I have collected some views from the past conversations on motivation and sticking with nursing. If you try to do the same you will see that many nurses share your view. I am just not sure whether nurses stick with nursing because the monies are good/acceptable, or whether there is so few other opportunities.
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Possibly true, and I did see that, but even so. You can Google any name and find many of the same; she's not the only Catherine Parr since Henry's time. :)