Report on the Today programme this morning about a new campaign announced by the Chief Nursing Officer for nurses to show "compassion" to the patients they are supposed to be looking after.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20583115
Also this morning the All Party Parliamentary Group for Migration drew attention to the number of migrants working in the United Kingdom as carers: https://twitter.com/APPGMigration
Is there a connection between the increasing lack of compassion among nurses and carers and the increasing recruitment of nurses and carers from overseas?
It would seem logical that nurses and carers drawn from the communities where they live and having a sense of vocation towards their neighbours will have more compassion and commitment than a globalised workforce paid the bare minimum and moving continually around the world to the places where they can get the best deal (this would also hold true I suspect for the higher paid categories of doctors, consultants and other specialists).
Of course these globalised healthcare workers will be professional. They would not be employed otherwise. But "compassion" is culturally-specific - when we ask for compassion we need to specify compassion on whose terms and according to whose cultural norms.
Why don't we just recruit people from within the United Kingdom and train them to the standards we expect?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20583115
Also this morning the All Party Parliamentary Group for Migration drew attention to the number of migrants working in the United Kingdom as carers: https://twitter.com/APPGMigration
Is there a connection between the increasing lack of compassion among nurses and carers and the increasing recruitment of nurses and carers from overseas?
It would seem logical that nurses and carers drawn from the communities where they live and having a sense of vocation towards their neighbours will have more compassion and commitment than a globalised workforce paid the bare minimum and moving continually around the world to the places where they can get the best deal (this would also hold true I suspect for the higher paid categories of doctors, consultants and other specialists).
Of course these globalised healthcare workers will be professional. They would not be employed otherwise. But "compassion" is culturally-specific - when we ask for compassion we need to specify compassion on whose terms and according to whose cultural norms.
Why don't we just recruit people from within the United Kingdom and train them to the standards we expect?
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