Abstract
Chapter 3 focused on individual assertiveness. However, there are many circumstances in which you, if acting in isolation from others, can have relatively little impact. Examples include influencing nationally agreed arrangements for pay and conditions of service, influencing the content of nurse education programmes, and influencing government expenditure on the National Health Service. Similarly, a number of local issues can be best addressed as a result of collective (as opposed to individual) assertiveness. Examples include rearrangement of existing nursing staff shifts, provision of transport for community nurses, planning for movement of mentally ill/mentally handicapped patients from hospital to the community, and the availability of resources for continuing education.
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Cormack, D. (1990). Collective assertiveness. In: Cormack, D.F.S. (eds) Developing Your Career in Nursing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7274-3_21
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