Medicine and Nursing: Professions in a Changing Health Service
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The NHS is the largest employer in Western Europe. It embraces two of the oldest professions - doctors and nurses - whose work practices are still highly traditional and yet currently at the forefront of radical change as health work is being reorganized to reflect the new political priorities of the 1990s. This book focuses on the collaborative work of doctors and nurses in one particular area: the acute hospital ward, looking at the effects of new wave′ management on formerly independent, autonomous teams. The authors examine the impact of changes in health service on professional boundaries and inter-professional relations, exploring the paradox of the ostensible drive to decentralise responsibility introduced alongside the increased ma
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803987420
ISBN13:9780803987425
Release Date:December 1994
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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