The nursing process is an innovation which has had a great effect on nursing practice.
Primary nursing is an innovation currently having profound effects on the delivery of nursing care.
In this article a theoretical framework of loss and attachment (Marris, 1985) is used to analyse these innovations.
Data from studies of the nursing process (Bryar, 1985) and primary nursing (Mead, 1991a) are
... [Show full abstract] used to argue that changes in working practices may result in a period of loss and mourning. Nurses must have time to work through this period of mourning if change is to be successfully implemented.