1. Let's look at system failure
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Anne Marie Rafferty, Alison While, Debra Bick, and Alison Metcalfe
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Health professionals ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Engineering ,Nursing ,General Medicine ,Outcome assessment ,United Kingdom ,Excuse ,Leadership ,Nursing care ,State (polity) ,System failure ,Nothing ,Law ,Outcome Assessment, Health Care ,Health care ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Medicine ,Clinical Competence ,business ,General Environmental Science ,media_common - Abstract
Nothing can excuse the reprehensible nursing care described by Delamothe.1 Nurses providing deplorable care are not worthy of their title, but the issues are wider. Why has this type of behaviour gone unchallenged by senior health professionals and managers, and what is wrong with a system that perpetuates this degree of inhumanity? The “sorry state” of nursing in some …
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- 2011
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