title: Counselling and the nurse.
abstract: The brief which I was given for the writing of this short piece was to write about counselling, slanting it towards the needs of nurses. On the face of it, this seems to be an entirely reasonable request. After all, my business is counselling and this journal will chiefly be read by nurses. Yet, for some reason which I could not at the time analyse, I felt a vague sense of unease at the task as it had been defined. Giving it some thought, I came to the conclusion that this unease was to do with the notion that such a brief might imply that nurses were somehow different to the rest of human kind. They are not, of course. However, I sometimes think that they believe themselves to be different and this is an idea to which I will return later. First, however, I wish to write about what I think counselling is and, by implication, what I think it is not and how personal circumstances may impinge on a working situation.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*