What Makes a Good Nurse: Why the Virtues are Important for Nurses

In recent years, the human values at the heart of the nursing profession seem to have been sidelined in favour of an increased focus on managerialist approaches to health care provision. Nursing's values are in danger of becoming marginalised further precisely because that which nursing does best - providing care and helping individuals through the human trauma of illness - is difficult to quantify, and so is rarely considered in official accounts of outcome measures.

Derek Sellman sets out ...