How person-centred care can improve nurses’ attitudes to hospitalised older patients
Tina Pope Staff nurse, Stroke unit, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex
The relationship between the attitudes and behaviours of nurses and the resulting care that they provide to older people is explored. It aims to raise nurses’ awareness and encourages them to reflect on their personal values and behaviours. The person-centred framework developed by McCormack and McCance (2010) is presented as one approach to improve care. The biographical approach (Clarke et al 2003) is also described as a means to enable nurses to see patients as people first and place them at the heart of health care.
Nursing Older People.
24, 1, 32-37.
doi: 10.7748/nop2012.02.24.1.32.c8901
Correspondence
t.pope@hotmail.co.uk
Peer review
This article has been subject to double blind peer review
Conflict of interest
None declared
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