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So many practitioners’ voices are silent or suppressed. Perhaps you can remember being silenced, not so much by others but by yourself. Imagine the practitioner’s reflection – ‘I wish I had said something but…’.

Is it a fear of repercussion, humiliation, or a sense of subordination? Either way it is a reflection of knowing your place is to be silent. Cumberlege (DHSS 1986) observed at meetings concerned with the discussion of her report on community nursing that doctors sat in the front rows and asked all the questions, whilst nurses sat in the back rows and kept silent. She commented how nurses needed to find a voice so they could be heard, otherwise, they would have no future in planning healthcare services. Her comment reflects how nurses have been socialised into a subordinate and powerless workforce through educational processes and dominant patterns of relationships with more powerful groups (Buckenham and McGrath 1983).

Writing ‘I wish I has said something but…’ opens the voice if just on paper. It begs the questions ‘what did I want to say?’ and why didn’t I say it?’