Medicine and Nursing: Professions in a Changing Health Service

by Sylvia Walby, June Greenwell, Lesley Mackay

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 ...

• 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"