Nursing lists: Taking the pulse of the profession?
Section: TEACHING TO LEARN
Authors
Mª Dolores Burguete Ramos
Position
Profesora Administración Servicios de Enfermería EUE Ntra. Sra. de los Desamparados. Valencia.
Contact email: burguete_dol@gva.es
Abstract
General objective: To describe the information circulating in nursing lists.
Material: Archives of messages from the lists: Metas, Ucie, Rol and Ivesten.
Method: The DAFOo SWOT matrix (in English “Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) was used which establishes a diagnosis and shows a realistic panorama
of our current situation that involves the combination of the
4 strategic elements:internal weaknesses, threats from
within the setting, internal strengths and opportunities from within the setting.
Results:
Internal weaknesses: The difficulty that still exists at the current time for the nurse to adopt an independent or autonomous role.
Threats from within the setting: or what we perceive as threats. We nurses have some “scars”, meaning we have bad memories, or we feel we have them, as a result of a conflict of interests with other collective groups in the field.
Opportunities from within the setting: We are facing a
change in the way the culture of healthcare is perceived.
The vision of the external image that the user will have of us nurses will largely depend on our capacity as a nursing collective group to resolve their problems.
Conclusions: All strategies to overcome some of the previously mentioned situations
require a change in how we project our professional image.
Material: Archives of messages from the lists: Metas, Ucie, Rol and Ivesten.
Method: The DAFOo SWOT matrix (in English “Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) was used which establishes a diagnosis and shows a realistic panorama
of our current situation that involves the combination of the
4 strategic elements:internal weaknesses, threats from
within the setting, internal strengths and opportunities from within the setting.
Results:
Internal weaknesses: The difficulty that still exists at the current time for the nurse to adopt an independent or autonomous role.
Threats from within the setting: or what we perceive as threats. We nurses have some “scars”, meaning we have bad memories, or we feel we have them, as a result of a conflict of interests with other collective groups in the field.
Opportunities from within the setting: We are facing a
change in the way the culture of healthcare is perceived.
The vision of the external image that the user will have of us nurses will largely depend on our capacity as a nursing collective group to resolve their problems.
Conclusions: All strategies to overcome some of the previously mentioned situations
require a change in how we project our professional image.
Keywords:
electronic mail; nursingprofession
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