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Lean on me

Jane Bates , Works in outpatients in Hampshire

It is difficult to fulfil a key role, writes Jane Bates

‘You are the patient’s advocate!’ I have had that drummed into me for years, and quite right too. Nurses are there to stand up for their patients and take their side – to be, as the song goes, someone to lean on.

Nursing Standard. 28, 19, 26-27. doi: 10.7748/ns2014.01.28.19.26.s31

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08 January 2014 / Vol 28 issue 19

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