Nursing doesn’t happen in a vacuum. If you are coming into the profession now, it’s likely that you have known nothing but crisis and change. From global financial crisis, through recession and austerity and on to Brexit, pandemic and pandemic reconstruction, the world is in constant flux.
People and institutions and practices exist in times and places. What seems eternal can change in a matter of days or weeks. Two years ago this March, the UK entered a national lockdown because of COVID-19, where all conventional means of delivering care and support to people were suddenly suspended or altered.