How nurse managers let down staff
Catherine McCabe Lecturer in nursing, School of nursing and midwifery studies, Trinity College, Dublin
Fiona Timmins Senior lecturer in nursing, School of nursing and midwifery studies, Trinity College, Dublin
Catherine McCabe and Fiona Timmins undertook a study of nurses’ assertiveness skills, which suggests that nurse managers play a vital role in both inhibiting and encouraging nurses to be assertive
NURSES HAVE been taught traditionally to be acquiescent, even submissive, helpers of doctors (Poroch and Mcintosh 1995), and nursing has been described as ‘an oppressed discipline’ (Farrell 2001) that remains the underdog in relation to medicine (Castledine 1997).
Nursing Management.
13, 3, 30-35.
doi: 10.7748/nm2006.06.13.3.30.c2054
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