Emergency nurses and their perceptions of caring
Mike Walsh Reader in Nursing, St Martin’s College, Lancaster;
Brian Dolan Nursing Research Fellow, King’s A&E Primary Care Service, London, and Doctoral Student, University of Oxford
Mike Walsh and Brian Dolan explore how emergency nurses view caring
The winter 1998/9 bed crisis once again highlighted the A&E department as being one of the main pressure points in the NHS, resulting in a great deal of stress being placed upon A&E staff. The link between stress and burnout has been well established and research by Walsh et al (1998) has shown worryingly high levels of burnout among A&E nursing staff, particularly in terms of deperson-alisation of patients. A key question, therefore, is whether A&E nurses view patient care differently from their colleagues in other areas of nursing. This research addresses that question together with the issue of how A&E nurses view stress.
Emergency Nurse.
7, 4, 24-31.
doi: 10.7748/en1999.07.7.4.24.c1285
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