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The Effects of Psychiatric Nurses Ceasing to Wear Uniform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Valerie J. Walker ,
George Voineskos  and
D. L. F. Dunleavy
Valerie J. Walker
Affiliation:
Previously Lecturer in Psychology, Royal Edinburgh Hospital; now at The Tavistock Clinic Adult Department, Tavistock Centre, Belsize Lane, London, N. W.3
George Voineskos
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
D. L. F. Dunleavy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
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In many psychiatric units nurses now wear ordinary clothes instead of uniforms. The rationale underlying such changes has usually been that uniforms inappropriately emphasize the medical role of the nurse in physical treatment and interfere with her therapeutic role. The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of such a change on the attitudes of both nurses and patients.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 546 , May 1971 , pp. 581 - 582
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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