Jordan: hospital, hospitality and the global research nurses network

The Jordan conference and experience prompted me to reflect upon 'hospitality' and 'hospital'. Also hospital as a physical environment and the way this contrasts with community care; and those without access to either.

At the research workshop on Monday with Nicola McHugh Project Coordinator for the Global Research Nurses' network, we were asked to consider and record how our respective job had changed. I jotted down the following also expanded here:

Winwick Hospital - Institutional care.

Issued with a (grey) suit and waistcoat.

White coats. Union lapel badges.

Witnessed (not overnight and still ongoing ...?) the transition to community care.

Development of primary care mental health.

The emergence of information technology.

From frontplate - nursing process and models, theories of nursing.

Nurses as advocates - now the addition of independent advocates.

Revisions to the Mental Health Act.

Changes in organizational hierarchies.

Changes in nurse education.

The increase in significance of the POLITICAL care domain:

informed consent, mental capacity, public engagement, litigation.

The cycle of re-organisations - NHS and Social Services.

Community Mental Health Nurses as therapists to assessors.

The development of the care programme approach (CPA).

The reduction in the number of injections / use of electroconvulsive therapy.

New drugs, evidence, specialist teams.

From in-house system to Körner to National Programme for IT to ..........

Less stigma for some conditions: epilepsy, psychosis but much remains

Diseases - Recovery - Self-care

Here are hospital and hospitality:

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

During the Middle Ages hospitals served different functions to modern institutions, being almshouses for the poor, hostels for pilgrims, or hospital schools. The word hospital comes from the Latin hospes, signifying a stranger or foreigner, hence a guest. Another noun derived from this, hospitium came to signify hospitality, that is the relation between guest and shelterer, hospitality, friendliness, hospitable reception.

The word hospitality derives from the Latin hospes, meaning 'host', 'guest', or 'stranger'. Hospes is formed from hostis, which means 'stranger' or 'enemy' (the latter being where terms like 'hostile' derive).

group - population

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital