The rise of the district nursing profession

Abstract

In nursing there tends to be a separation between nurses who ‘talk’ and nurses who ‘do’. Those of us who do the talking get noticed, while those who are busy doing keep their heads down and get on with the day job. What we need are nurses who do both. Where talking grows from practice and where practice is informed by a wider view of the world. Nowhere is this needed more than in district nursing which often receives less attention than it deserves. Both the setting (the home) and the patient group (often frai…