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C Beckingham

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PubMed1995

Relinquishing the sick role: convalescence and rehabilitation.

This paper examines the problems of patients who have been considered by their doctors to have received adequate rehabilitation and to be ready to relinquish the sick role. The sick role is discussed in its historical context and convalescence and rehabilitation are considered as alternative approaches to medical and nursing care. It is argued that many patients leaving hospital are frightened because they do not feel well and they will receive little if any follow-up or support after discharge. It is the author's belief that many patients need to convalesce because the very essence of their being is still ill.

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Nursing research: some guidelines for practitioners.

In a state of rapid change, nursing over the last few years has become almost unrecognizable. And the profession, says Cushla Beckingham, has perhaps never been more divided. Some nurses (particularly those too senior to gain entry to tertiary courses) see a great chasm between tertiary-educated nurses and those who give "old-style" nursing care based on intuition. Indeed, the profession does consist of three separate groups--the educators and the practitioners (between which is a large gap) plus nurse managers. For Beckingham, research based on area of practice could be the uniting factor, particularly in the search for cost-cutting programmes, as government funds for medical care diminish with each new budget.

Clinical Nursing Research↗