The Invisible Work of Nurses: Hospitals, Organisation and Healthcare

by Davina Allen

Book Overview

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with patients - whether these are absent, present, good, bad or indifferent - that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work extends far beyond direct patient care activities. Across the spectrum of locales in which they are employed, nurses, in numerous ways, support and sustain the delivery and organisation of health services...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138213616
• ISBN13: 9781138213616
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"