The 'keepers' mentioned in the title of this book are workers in prisons, long-stay hospitals, homes for mentally retarded people and other total institutions. Their feelings about their work and about the institutions are presented here in twelve monologues selected from more than 60 interviews with workers in 27 different ...
The purpose of this survey was to undertake an exploratory enquiry on the views of both staff and patients about psychiatric departments in general hospitals, mainly in London and southern England. It does not attempt to be a comprehensive attitude survey. Fourteen departments were included in the survey; at the ...
This survey of employee opinion was an innovation in the hospital field and so it is hoped that it will be of interest to a wider audience than just the London Hospital Group as some of the results have implications of more general interest. A small number of results from ...
The attitude a nurse has towards a patient is one of the most important factors influencing the standard of care patients receive. But a nurse's attitudes to patients are influenced by the attitudes of senior and junior staff. Attitudes between staff and attitudes of staff to patients are, in reality, ...
The attitudes that nurses adopt towards patients can be created by a number of different pressures, and they can effect the type of care patients receive. The King's Fund undertook an attitude project and then discussed the possibility of finding out what nurses' attitudes were through a series of discussion ...