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| Title |
A personal essay on the role of the nurse
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Contemporary Nurse, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.5172/conu.2013.43.2.213 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Linda Shields |
| Abstract |
Nursing has suffered a lack of understanding by the general public, who often can see no further than stereotypes of heroine, harlot, harridan or handmaiden. These have colored nursing's development as a profession, in Australia as in the rest of the world. Australia, as the 'lucky country' has one of the best health systems in the world, and Australian nurses are amongst those at the forefront of the profession. However, it appears that Australian nurses, as with many sections of Australian society, do not recognize that they hold high professional standards. With the influence of the international nursing shortage and the ever-growing technological advances within health care, alternatives to nurses, and to the registered nurse, are emerging. It is vitally important that nursing controls and regulates these developments. Only by protecting the legitimate role of the nurse, ensuring that education standards are maintained at the highest appropriate level, and generating and using new nursing knowledge will outcomes for all those who come to us for care be of the highest order. This essay proposes that Australian nurses need to overcome the 'cultural cringe' and recognize that they are in charge of a profession which meets the highest international standards. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 18 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 16 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 4 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 22% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 11% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 3 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 44% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 3 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 May 2013.
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#262
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#175,263
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