Table of contents
Managing professional integration in an acute hospital – a socio‐political analysis
Norman CrumpThis paper considers the form that the challenge of the introduction of new ways of working takes for those charged with the management of new partnerships by drawing on some of…
The effect of new public management on intensive care unit staff
Ruth KowalczykThe NHS is largely dependent on two groups of professionals – medics and nurses. Recent government changes support the development of a central role for management. The impact of…
Consumer as king in the NHS
Sharon C. BoltonOver the last two decades, in response to political and financial pressures, the NHS has been subjected to considerable changes in its organisation. There is increasing emphases…
Dilemmas of emotion work in nursing under market‐driven health care
Debora BoneTherapeutic emotion work is one aspect of a range of emotion work performed by nurses as they manage their own and their patients’ feelings with the intention of improving health…
Professional predicaments: comparing the professionalisation projects of German and Italian nurses
Mike DentThis article examines the similarities and differences in the professional and work organisation of nursing within two European countries: Italy and Germany. In principle both…
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- Professor Rocco Palumbo