Deep nursing: a thoughtful, co-created nursing process
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Deep nursing: a thoughtful, co-created nursing process

Colin Griffiths Assistant professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dublin Trinity College, Ireland

This article examines some of the challenges in nursing practice experienced by patients and nurses in the UK and Ireland, and considers some of the associated stressors in the system. Nurses must respond to these challenges by crafting their own practice, and the article offers a blueprint for developing personal nursing practice through acceptance, paying detailed attention to patients, taking time with patients and personal reflection. It draws on innovations in learning disability practice to suggest that care should be jointly thought through and co-created by patients and nurses, and that this process of thoughtful engagement constitutes ‘deep nursing’.

Nursing Management. 24, 1, 27-30. doi: 10.7748/nm.2017.e1573

Correspondence

cgriffi@tcd.ie

Peer review

This article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software

Conflict of interest

None declared

Received: 26 August 2016

Accepted: 28 November 2016

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