2022/07/27 by David Rickerby
#Caring professions #nursing #professionalisation.
paper · doi:10.5526/esj145
The caring professions will come under increasing strain during the century ahead. Increased litigation, falling investment, human rights reform and healthcare policy changes have all had a great impact on the various staff of the UK’s statutory and independent health services. Inevitably, as these staff endure change and their practice develops and improves, our conception of their position in society alters. This paper serves as an overview of the debate surrounding professionalisation in nursing and attempts to tie up the relevant issues for nurses and for those dependent upon them as carers.