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Educating‐and involving‐the decision maker
Author(s) -
ELLIOTT JAMES
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of the institute of mental subnormality (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0141-2205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1974.tb00049.x
Subject(s) - club , officer , praise , ridiculous , duty , clothing , management , law , medicine , psychology , art , political science , literature , psychotherapist , economics , anatomy
No, nurse. You should not be sitting down eating with the patients: it's not only bad for discipline, but you're eating their food. In any case, you'll have to pay the fuIl cost of the meal, And that ridiculous spotted shirt you're wearing ‐ quite unprofessional! Appropriate uniform is provided and paid for by the management and approved by the Whitley Council. Haven't you heard of the national uniform for nurses? And while I'm about it, I see you're using odd pieces of crockery at the table‐that's not Ministry issue ‐ all the colours are diferent. What's that? Bought it out of ward funds? What ward funds? Wheie is your account book und receipts? You've what? You let the patients club together ‐ the money's in a cocoa tin! Does the treasurer know? Who turned that side‐room into a disco? And papered the walls? The patients did it? Did the works officer approve the paper you used? Is it washable, or firepsoof? I've had complaints from committee members about nude pin‐ups in‐ the men's dormitories: they say you are putting ideas into innocent minds. Did I see patients at the stove when I passed your kitchen just now? Cooking snacks? For themselves? You know there's a hospital regulation against it ‐ ever since Doris Brown got burned in 1957 and we had that committee of inquiry. And what about that student volunteer group from the university this evening? We can't have these people unsupervised. You'll be with them yourself? But according to the list you're ofl duty at five. You're going ofl now and coming back later? Does the allocations officer know? Don't you know the group nursing policy about hours of duty? What's the good of having central policies if people like you don't conform?