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The invisible work of nurses : hospitals, organisation and healthcare

By:

Allen, D

Series: Routledge advances in health and social policyPublication details: London : Routledge, 2015Description: xiv, 153pISBN:

9781138213616

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Summary: The aim of this book is to lay the empirical and theoretical foundations for a reappraisal of the nursing contribution to society by shining a light on this invisible aspect of nurses' work. Nurses, it is argued, can be understood as focal actors in health systems and through myriad processes of 'translational mobilisation' sustain the networks through which care is organised. Not only is this work an essential driver of action, it also operates as a powerful countervailing force to the centrifugal tendencies inherent in healthcare organisations which, for all their gloss of order and rationality are in reality very loose arrangements.

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Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves		WY 100 ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		17728
Book	Sally Howell Library (Epsom) Shelves		WY 100 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018331
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves	Newham collection at Whipps Cross	WY 18 ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	16/11/2023	N05971

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The aim of this book is to lay the empirical and theoretical foundations for a reappraisal of the nursing contribution to society by shining a light on this invisible aspect of nurses' work. Nurses, it is argued, can be understood as focal actors in health systems and through myriad processes of 'translational mobilisation' sustain the networks through which care is organised. Not only is this work an essential driver of action, it also operates as a powerful countervailing force to the centrifugal tendencies inherent in healthcare organisations which, for all their gloss of order and rationality are in reality very loose arrangements.

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