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The organizational influence on counselling relationships in a general hospital setting
Author(s) -
JONES A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.1995.tb00147.x
Subject(s) - empathy , nursing , visitor pattern , context (archaeology) , psychology , medicine , social psychology , paleontology , computer science , biology , programming language
Counselling is becoming increasingly important as a development of nursing practice. The Scope of Professional Practice has enabled the emergence of the nurse, midwife and health visitor as a hybrid practioner, the nurse counsellor. This paper explores the nature of the ‘nurse counsellor's’ role. The paper makes a distinction between counselling skills as a feature of the nurses' role and counselling practice. It examines the influence exerted through the organizational context of the work setting. The author explores the issues as they arise in a general health setting and makes a case for organizational empathy toward what is essentially an embryonic and potentially misunderstood development of nursing practice.