title: Examine your motivation to help and care for others ... (continuing education credit).
abstract: Health care professionals are influenced by a number of factors. The way they see their roles with respect to the people they help influences the way they behave. Patients too have expectations of those who help them which in turn affects the way professionals behave. This article invites the reader to examine his or her own motivation and attitudes and to consider the experience of people who need the help of health care professionals.
authors.affiliation: City University, St Bartholemew's School of Nursing and Midwifery.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sully
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009042:Motivation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology