Editorial : Tell me, how do you define person-centredness?

Abstract

The International Community of Practice for Person-centred Practice (PCP-ICoP) coordinated from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, recently wrote about the current state of person-centredness across several countries in the world (McCormack et al. 2015). In that publication, we highlighted a number of concerns, the existence of which are working against the advancement of person-centredness as a coherent theoretically informed and practice-embedded framework for nursing. We believe that a focus on person-centredness provides an opportunity for nursing to rise above particular theoretical ‘fan clubs’ and work within a coherent set of principles that are multivariate, context nonspecific and trans-specialist.