Professional Practice What make a Nurse a professional? Discussions of autonomy, responsibility and decision making – for a start

Home Who is Marie? What is a Nursing Salon? Creative Health Care Management Relationship-Based Care Primary Nursing     Marie Manthey's Nursing Salon Friday, March 24, 2006 Nurses have an amazing capacity to do more! I know if I said this in a speech before an audience of nurses, many would get angry, and some would probably walk out. And yet, it is a statement I believe to be true. Not all nurses. Not in all work situations. Not all the time.     Read more. 12:56:44 PM     comments. Monday, March 13, 2006 Claiming our authority. Some days, I am deeply concerned about nursing: we are not helping in the way that we could be. The average RN does not get to make decisions about the kind, degree and amount of nursing care our patients get. That should be the first item on any staff nurse job description. We need to claim our authority. We need to stop using "assessment" and other mealy mouthed words that allow us to avoid talking about authority and responsibility. 2:01:00 PM     comments. Friday, March 10, 2006 Some Fundamentals My friend and colleague, Mary Koloroutis, is working on a field guide to Relationship-Based Care. She has been looking over some of my old writings and asking me questions, trying to clarify some fundamental concepts. As we talked, I realized it is important to review those fundamentals every so often.   So, here is what I shared with Mary about Articulated Expectations and Authority.   3:31:55 PM     comments. © Copyright 2007 Marie Manthey. Last update: 6/18/2007; 9:51:11 AM.