professionalism

With all these intellectual, political and argumentative posts recently,  I have been losing interest in joining in the discussion. I’m finding it a little less a discussion and more like a my dads better than yours situation. I am quite sure that I am not alone, therefore I want to write a post about plain old mental health nursing. (Not that there is anything plain about it). Read the rest of this entry »

Dr Crippen (Fat Lazy Male Nurse 31/03/08) is fond of stating that Nurses “Don’t know what they don’t know” and using this as an argument against extended roles for nurses and other health care professionals. Nurse practitioners and Emergency care practitioners are, according to Dr C, acting outside their area of competence and going off piste as he puts it when they attempt to take on the roles traditionally associated with the medical profession. Only Doctors with their years of medical training are, according to Dr Crippen, qualified to diagnose, prescribe medication and treat illness. Using nurses, ambulance staff, pharmacists or anyone else not medically trained to fulfil any of these roles is dangerous and an example of dumbing down, says Dr Crippen.

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