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Globally, the trend is increasingly towards a focus on specialised nursing and a tendency for nursing to be reduced to the performance of purely technical instrumental tasks without the need to relate to and empathise with the patient’s situation. The result is deficient and fragmented nursing, which in turn results in patient complaints and frustration among nurses wishing to provide person-centred care. Broad consensus exists among nurse researchers that a relationship is core to the patient-nurse interaction. Other focal elements are skills and knowledgeability, communicative abilities and awareness of how the setting and surroundings influence the patient-nurse relationship. There is consequently a need for person-centred nursing to be recognised, not least among policy-makers, but also among practitioners themselves. Equally, research in the relationship and integration of physical, psychosocial and relational elements in the patient-nurse interaction and the context in which nursing is placed, should be optimised. Danish research teams have already engaged in this task with international counterparts under the International Learning Collaborative. This global alliance brings nurses and other care workers together to share the best available evidence, policy and practice around fundamental care.

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