Barbara Docherty

Nurse Barbara Docherty looks back through the decades to a simpler era of self-reliance 

Imagine a healthcare system that includes 24-hour medical care clinics run by a large collective of GPs, all of whom agree to do a shift from a regular roster to spread the work evenly

Failing to stick to your profession’s code of conduct has consequences – but so, too, do everyday interactions with patients, writes Barbara Docherty 

After practice nurses miss out on pay parity funding due to “lack of evidence”, nurse educator Barbara Docherty outlines a strategy to get the best proof of nurses’ worth 

A family funeral has Barbara Docherty reminiscing about past attitudes to death where there’s always a place for humour 

COVID-19 brought to the fore the rights of patients to make decisions about what medical procedures they undertake, so it’s time for a careful review of the process around informed consent, writes nurse educator Barbara Docherty