Where has the compassion gone from the residential aged care environment?

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal

Publisher

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

Place of Publication

Australia

School

School of Nursing and Midwifery

RAS ID

26777

Comments

Oliver, K. (2017). Where has the compassion gone from the residential aged care environment?. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, 24(7), 40. Available here.

Abstract

Would working in residential aged care be your dream job as a newly qualified nurse, probably not, but why not? Montayre (2015) suggests that although nurses don’t like to talk about it, or even less, what the real problem is perceived to be with this practice area, residential aged care nursing is thought to be less exciting, monotonous, and requiring less skill than other areas such as emergency nursing, or medical nursing.

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