Sex workers face many barriers when accessing healthcare, starting with the generalising and stereotyping of those selling sex. Healthcare staff can possess both conscious and unconscious bias and make moral judgements about the sex industry and sex workers, which can negatively impact their ability to deliver quality healthcare that meets the needs of this patient group. It is illegal for more than one individual to sell sex from any indoor location atone time. This means that sex workers must choose between working alone and risk the increased vulnerability that this brings, or face criminalisation for working together. As such, sex workers fear opening up about their work to healthcare professionals for fear of criminalisation. The route ...

Written by Elaine Maxwell Nursing has often been seen as a practical rather than a theoretical activity but without theory, the practice is entirely subjective and whether patients benefit is a matter of luck rather than planning.In fact, nursing has long had implicit theories, even though they were not always written down.  Even Florence Nightingale espoused an implicit theory in her book, Notes of Nursing, Her theory focused on hygiene and supporting medical practice. There was a concerted effort in the 1950s to articulate implicit assumptions about nursing and to bring them together into a holistic theory that, if understood and implemented in practice, would ensure that professional nursing provided a benefit above and beyond the action ...