1st Edition
The Changing Shape of Nursing Practice The Role of Nurses in the Hospital Division of Labour
By Davina Allen
Copyright 2001
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bringing together sociological theories and nursing practice this text develops a dynamic conceptualisation of the nursing role which is rooted in the work setting. It looks at the factors which have shaped nursing work in the past and those which are likely to shape it in the future. Nurses' work is changing in two respects: the place nursing occupies in the health care division of... Read more
1 Professionalism and managerialism 2 Conceptualizing the nursing role 3 The study 4 The intra-occupational division of labour 5 The nurse–support worker boundary 6 The nurse–management boundary 7 The nurse–doctor boundary 128 The nurse–patient boundary 9 Conclusions
Biography
Davina Allen is a Lecturer and Deputy Director of The Centre for Nursing, Health and Social Care Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff.
'An original and challenging picture of everyday life in a typical British general hospital.' - Professor Robert Dingwall, University of Nottingham
'Has the potential to be one of the most innovatory and exciting texts to emerge from within nursing for some time.' - Anne Marie Rafferty, Centre for Policy in Nursing Research
