NURSING AND EDUCATION PLATFORM

This point needs exploring; I just churn info out now. Anybody is welcome to add.

Much progress in care has been delayed by many factors; one of which is the lack of definition of poor care. This ranges from errors to shear abuse. Indeed  some form of scale may be developed - traffic lights?

Why the importance? Different forms of poor care MAY have different reasons and occur more so in certain fields of nursing than others (qualityofnursingcare.webs.com  free updates)

Some may refer to it as "inefficiency" which usually indicates low numbers of beds or staff, for example. This may be more statistically measured. Whilst this may well cause some aspects of "poor care" such as omitted care, or errors , it will not cause others such as abuse- unless it contributes as there are less staff to monitor situations.  Errors may also occur when there is no short staffing  .

Politicians/inspectors do seemingly favour the efficiency/statistical perspective- "care is a commodity"; similar in other fields eg education. Are we to count the number of smiles per hour (Mcdonolodian approach?)

This failure to define such aspects, causes conflict and misunderstandings between individuals who in reality, seek similar ends.

There is no point defining what is QUALITY of Care, without first knowing what is POOR care.

Links to article "cruelty in nursing" lenin2u.wordpress    

Article on this site "Poor care IS poor care".