This article considers the potential reasons for the increasing importance of ethical concerns in the context of nursing management and its implications.
The description of working methods based on reflective and reflexive group processes, alongside more empirical data-gathering methods, is offered as a radical alternative to more orthodox ways of understanding, and attempting to work with change in the NHS.
The concept of the expert patient is an increasingly important one in healthcare policy and delivery. To date, however, there has been relatively limited consideration of the nature and characteristics of the knowledge and skills underpinning the role of expert patient or the relationship to more traditional health professional expertise. This article considers the emerging concept of the expert patient in the UK, its relationship to the emergence of the expert patient elsewhere (notably in Canada), together with exploration of the supporting rationales, assumptions and possible implications associated with the initiative.
How can we understand the pivotal value of touch and collaborative processes within two artists' drawing practice and how do we articulate the generative nature of such practice-based research? Bullen's drawing explores the relationship between hand, breath and surface, Fox's, the semi-resisted action of wind between paper and pencil. Both artists have a shared concern with non-representational drawing processes, an expanded notion of 'material' and a focus on the experience of reciprocity between the individual practitioner and the world in which they practice. These concerns are discussed in terms of 'being present' and 'making present', which this article attempts to conceptualise at an interim stage in the research with reference to theory about drawing, anthropology and meditation practice. The understanding of drawing mobilized here is one in which, as Grisewood argues, 'seeing' is not a prerequisite. It is a practice of drawing that is about receiving (Berger 2005) and being (Viola 1995). Lyon, Bullen and Fox are developing a collaborative methodology for this research in which their respective embodied, manual practices of drawing and writing are in dialogue.
This is the first of two articles which collectively consider the evolving concept of 'consumerism' within the NHS and the degree to which this can be seen as having informed preregistration nursing and midwifery education within England. The impact upon preregistration education is the focus of the second article within which findings from a four-stage study will be explored. This first article considers the nature of consumerism in relation to the health service. It seeks to explore the place of consumerism within the NHS reforms heralded in 2000, while acknowledging that as a concept it remains problematic. The potential distinction between the individualistic and more collectively based notion of consumerism is highlighted. Finally, the article suggests that in order to adopt fully the consumer ethos in the NHS - more latterly redefined as a user- or partnership-based service - appropriate resources and education are required.
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