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The Vocabulary of Complaints: Nursing, Professionalism and Job Context
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The primary argument of the first section of this paper is that the frustrations of nursing are over-determined by a range of structural and ideological features which conspire to limit the professional autonomy of the nurse at the bedside and the focus of the vocabulary of complaint is this lack of work-context autonomy with respect to the patient under the general surveillance of the medical profession.Abstract:
A large body of research has fully documented the contradictions and problems of nursing with special reference to the job context of nursing activities in bureaucratic hospital organisations. In t...read more
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