Re-reading nursing and re-writing practice: Towards an empirically based reformulation of the nursing mandate

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-283

  Allen, Davina ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Intermediary; Jurisdiction; Mandate; Work

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; DOCUMENTATION; EMPATHY; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; NEGOTIATING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; WRITING;

EID: 11844292068     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2004.00234.x     Document Type: Review

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