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Hello, my name is Brendan McCormack
and I'm Professor of Nursing
and Head of the Division of Nursing
at Queen Margaret University
in Edinburgh.
I'm also an Honorary
Nurse Consultant
in Gerontology at NHS Fife.
I hold a number of other
positions internationally.
And the title of my talk today
is "Person-Centred
Approaches to Care"
which is also the focus
of my program of research.
I do have a particular interest
in gerontology
but my talk today
is applied generally.
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I wanted to put this slide up
which is a photograph of the cover
of our current book,
from which a lot of the text,
that I'm delivering
in this lecture, is derived.
And this builds
on our previous publication
which had
a specific focus on nursing,
whereas, this one has
more of a broad focus
on healthcare more generally.
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I wanted to start off
by talking a little bit about,
person-centredness more generally.
It's very true to say that today,
in the nursing world,
there is a strong desire
to live out person-centred values.
And it would be unusual to meet
with nurse leaders
or practicing nurses
who don't in some way
espouse person-centred values.
They have become
very much a core part
of what nursing is actually about.
However, my colleague Tanya McCance
and I have published,
"We recognize that
espousing these values
in everyday practice is one thing
but making them real
in the constant
stressful environment
that many nurses are working in.
An environment
where there is a constant tussle
between conflicting priorities.
But also environments
that are often chaotic
and sometimes very unpredictable...
that whilst we espouse
these values,
that the reality
is for many practitioners,
they really struggle
to live them out
in any meaningful way."
