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Ann Bradshaw Macmillan Lecturer in Palliative Nursing, National Institute for Nursing, Oxford
Ann Bradshaw says changes in nurse education, professional autonomy and in the character of the nurse mean the nursing role has become obscured
A year ago, Alice Thomas Ellis recorded her impression of a recent hospital stay (1). Gone was the order and respect she remembered from the past, instead she was greeted by the informality of first names and a brochure enshrining the ward mission statement.
Nursing Standard.
8, 46, 38-39.
doi: 10.7748/ns.8.46.38.s56
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