Who cares? Offering emotion work as a 'gift' in the nursing labour process

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 580-586

  Bolton, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'emotion work'; 'emotional labour'; Altruism; Caring; Gift; Health care; Hochschild; Nurses; Professional; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MODEL; MOTIVATION; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, NURSING; MOTIVATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; WORK;

EID: 0034263144     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01516.x     Document Type: Article

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