Mix and match: the correct skill mix on a team is recognised as essential, but there is another, usually ignored, aspect that deserves consideration
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Providing a broad range of personality types in hospitals is as important as providing a range of nursing skills. The four facets of personality are our ruled by whether we are extrovert or introvert, how we collect information, how the information is used in decision making and how we live. These four functions give rise to 16 possible broad personality types including intuition, thinking, feeling and perceiving.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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An occupational health nurse describes life as a nurse on location in the film industry. A film nurse must be able to offer a wide range of health problems, be able to improvise, and cope with long hours and difficult working conditions. However, the rewards of a luxurious and enjoyable lifestyle far outweigh the inconveniences.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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Show some emotion
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A nurse recounts her experience of looking after a women patient with inoperable breast cancer. She learns that by sharing the patient's feelings of grief and anger and by being willing to become personally involved she has shown that a caring attitude can also be a professional one.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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