Physical Boundaries and Professional Space

Watch your step: nursing and professional boundaries.

Nursing boundaries, first addressed by Florence Nightingale, are referred to in the “Nightingale Pledge” used in pinning ceremonies throughout our country. Passages such as ”I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous...maintain and elevate the standard of my profession...will hold in confidence matters committed to my keeping...in the practice of my calling...and devote myself ...

Dynamic professional boundaries in the healthcare workforce.

The healthcare professions have never been static in terms of their own disciplinary boundaries, nor in their role or status in society. Healthcare provision has been defined by changing societal expectations and beliefs, new ways of perceiving health and illness, the introduction of a range of technologies and, more recently, the formal recognition of particular groups through the introduction...

Professional boundaries in learning disability care.

Healthcare staff providing care for people with a learning disability often deliver intimate personal care and have access to confidential information about vulnerable clients. Awareness of professional boundaries can help them to avoid either under- or over-involvement with patients and clients. Education and reflection can improve staff awareness of boundaries and help them reflect usefully o...

Blurred boundaries damage inter-professional working.

Everybody pays lip-service to the idea that healthcare professionals should collaborate in delivering care to patients. In this article, Rosemary Rushmer explores how a new methodology, connate theory could lead to improvements in our understanding of what makes healthcare teams tick.

Professional boundaries in the physician-patient relationship.