The Hive (1967)
“She wrote a list, in her strong looped handwriting, and sat surveying it before setting out on her ward round.
The assistant matron and the administrative sister who occupied the office next to hers had opted out. She had fully expected this. She had told them of the plan apart from the others, partly because she knew that such separate treatment was due to their status, and partly because she didn’t want them to join in anyway. They were important to the day-to-day running of the hospital, to ...the detailed part of it, but she did not want them to be too much a part of what she considered the essence of her job—the relationship between herself and the ward and departmental sisters, and student nurses.
For all her interest in and genuine belief in the value of good therapeutic relationships, she was human enough to want to remain the most important member of the staff. The two administrative sisters were far too near to her in the hierarchy to be encouraged to share in this discussion idea, she thought.MoreLess
The assistant matron and the administrative sister who occupied the office next to hers had opted out. She had fully expected this. She had told them of the plan apart from the others, partly because she knew that such separate treatment was due to their status, and partly because she didn’t want them to join in anyway. They were important to the day-to-day running of the hospital, to ...the detailed part of it, but she did not want them to be too much a part of what she considered the essence of her job—the relationship between herself and the ward and departmental sisters, and student nurses.
For all her interest in and genuine belief in the value of good therapeutic relationships, she was human enough to want to remain the most important member of the staff. The two administrative sisters were far too near to her in the hierarchy to be encouraged to share in this discussion idea, she thought.MoreLess
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