Nurse Blaming.

It was clear from the survey that Francis , in the Middle Staffordshire Trust, nurses failed and neglected patients. There is - of course - there is no excuse for such cruelty , but to really understand what happened, these acts must be seen not in terms of individual failures , but in the context of the final report describes a trust hospital setting ' interest personal and corporate cost control ahead of patient safety . '

However, the government's response to the report focused primarily on the ability of nurses to care for, with a recommendation to anyone entering the profession to spend a year as an assistant health care " before entering the . university ' seems to be a misunderstanding about how the university trained nurses spend their time - do not realize that fifty percent of the three years spent in a clinical setting dealing directly with patients, not in a library or conference room?

Nursing students I know are full of enthusiasm and compassion. "Love ," which often declare their new profession. I see nursing education as the source of the problem. The key question for me is what happens between graduation and too frequent burn-out ?

When I spoke to the nurse about compassion Shaun Maher said not being able to do their job slowly chips away at satisfaction , becoming cynical nurses or else I'm driving the profession. " There is a gap between the care you want to give birth and care they are able to offer . "

The Willis Commission - set up to examine the best way to train nurses to meet the challenges of contemporary health care - published its findings in November 2012 and did not recommend any change in the way nurses learn in a university setting . But just three months later , among its many other recommendations , the Survey of Francis suggested that nurses should spend a few months before attending health training degree . The government seized it , increasing this dubious learning a whole year before the start of the formal nursing education. How this was made ​​, cost , or whether it will become a barrier to entry has not yet been resolved. Meanwhile, the government has ignored Francis such other recommendations as registering all health care partners who make both basic care and minimum wage state. Deborah Orr, in an article in the Guardian scouring wrote about how little value we reward and the whole idea of care in our society , and what little we have to pay for it . However, David Cameron did not hesitate to give a lecture on compassion nurses .

Neither the government supported the action Francisco on levels of staffing recommendation , which I think key to the type of burnout Shaun described above. Their resistance to this movement can only be because the legislation would get in the way of private for-profit companies in the way they see fit .

In his recent inaugural conference on the state of nursing, Tonks Fawcett Commission cited Willis : " Our education system must produce nurses with intelligence and compassion, not one or the other ' .

Apart from all the academic and practical skills they need to take in , nurses must learn to speak for themselves more effectively , especially at times when they are being used as scapegoats way - when dangerous systemic failures are detected attributed to the lack of 'feeling' . It is only by having a better voice than ' nurse blame ' can be countered with ideas and constructive action.

In an interview with the Nursing times last week , Robert Francis was disappointed with the response of nursing leaders ' , or lack of response to your report ( for example, the chief nurse of England report has been delayed until June). He said: " There is a need to strengthen the voice of nursing to what nurses need in their workplace to do their work effectively for patients articulated better and stronger . "