PubMed · 8159569
Nursing: caring or codependent?
Abstract
Can nurses practice caring within a healthcare system that promotes codependency? Caring promotes mutual empowerment of all participants while codependent caring disempowers. Nurses are expected to practice caring with clients, The authors contend, however, that nursing, as historically and currently practiced within bureaucratic/patriarchal organizations, is founded on a value system that fosters codependency. Until nursing is practiced within the context of caring organizations and a caring healthcare system, nurses will continue to be powerless to shape their own practice as carers and burnout will continue to be a problem.
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R A Caffrey, P A Caffrey. Nursing: caring or codependent?. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6198.1994.tb00145.x
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