Nursing and the Division of Labour in Healthcare

• Author(s): Davina Allen, David Hughes,
• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 0333802292
  ISBN_13: 9780333802298
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Critical Care , Medical / Health Care Delivery , Medical / Nursing / General ,

Description:... This book examines the division of labour between nurses and other health professions and occupations. It connects classic sociological concerns with practical problems affecting the contemporary NHS, such as : skill-mix in hospitals; the emergence of new roles; the shifting boundaries between medicine and nursing; and the barriers to change that exist. The book contains a series of case studies illustrating tensions, conflict and accommodation observable when occupations, or sub-groups within occupations, negotiate new working relationships.