Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: NHS management accountability

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Thursday, September 14, 2023

NHS management accountability

INDIVIDUAL
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     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               
HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 
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GROUP
NURSING
ACCOUNTABILITY

NURSING
ACCOUNTABILITY


NURSING
ACCOUNTABILITY^


Managers accountable?
It's about time!*


Nurses have been here for a long time.

You're still not
listening though ...




*Assuming NHS managers become subject to regulation and can also be held to account.

^Yes, spiritual too.

Many nurses may not want to acknowledge or contemplate the 'politics' of health. They respond quickly: It is not why they came into the profession. But, in practice and theory you / we cannot avoid it. In nurse-patient encounters, it is ever-present; it is the other / shadow encounter.