Abstract
Nurses become distressed when they are unable to care for their patients adequately. There are many factors that lead to this state of affairs: lack of time or insufficient equipment; inflexible rules or intolerant colleagues; any of these may lead to feelings of inadequacy or sheer exhaustion. Many factors are faults of the system in which nurses work but are usually interpreted as the personal failure of the individual nurse. This can prevent nurses from airing their grievances, for no one wants to be thought unable to cope. If the system can be changed, even on a small scale, to allow nurses more time with their patients, increased job satisfaction will follow.
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Flemming, C. (1986). Sharing Caring. In: The Other Side of Medical Care. The ‘New Approaches to Care’ series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18179-7_5
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