The tyranny of crisis intervention
The tyranny of crisis intervention. In: Nursing Management, vol. 9, no. 3, 2002, (Publisher: Nursing Management).
Abstract
Sarah Cowley warns against allowing urgent tasks to take priority over routine care in health visiting
Fears that serious child abuse, or even murder, may happen if the response to a crisis situation is either inadequate or inappropriate overshadow the routine basis of much health visiting work. Hammond1 [illegible word] that the greatest danger is in ting urgent things crowd out the important, for a constant tension exists between these two: whereas the important task must rarely be done today, or even this week, there is endless pressure from urgent things, demanding instant action.