Personal view
Future clinical role of nurses in the United Kingdom
S MullallyDepartment of
Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS
Correspondence to: Ms Mullally, Chief Nursing Officer
Submitted 6 December
2000;
Accepted 12 December 2000
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Introduction |
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Nursing, like the NHS, is at a crossroads. The NHS Plan sets
out two directions for nursing, midwifery and health visiting, which on
first sight may seem to be contradictory. The Plan sets out firmly what
patients want, which is to get the fundamentals of care right
dignity
and privacy, proper food and drink, help with personal hygiene. They
want a nurse to be with them when they are sick and vulnerable. These
are issues I am addressing by strengthening the role of the ward sister
and charge nurse, and through the national clinical benchmarking
project (see box 1).1
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Yet the NHS Plan also sets out "The Chief Nursing Officer's 10 key roles for nurses" (box 2), roles which advance and extend the traditional parameters of nursing.
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The patient experience |
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As the chair of the patient experience action team which prepared
us for the NHS Plan,2 it was difficult to hear some of the
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