All Outputs (3)

Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, October). Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space. Paper presented at 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing and Health Care, Sydney, Australia

Building on the findings of a critical ethnography that investigated the impact of workplace culture on the delivery of person centred care in an acute surgical ward in regional Queensland, this presentation outlines a solution to the problem of dehu... Read More about Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space.

What is lost when nurses join the team? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, October). What is lost when nurses join the team?. Paper presented at 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing & Healthcare Conference, Sydney, Australia

Most nurses, when asked why they joined the profession, would state ‘to care for people’. Equally, popular discourse depicts nurses as caring and conjures up images of self-sacrifice, altruism and ‘angels’. This perspective is shared by the nursing p... Read More about What is lost when nurses join the team?.

Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, July). Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing. Paper presented at Empathy3, Oxford, UK

Empathy and compassion are expected in all nurses and required for person-centred care. However, common public discourse has tended to focus on patient experiences of nursing care that lacked empathy and which subsequently led to negative health outc... Read More about Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing.