Profession, market and class: Nurse migration and the remaking of division and disadvantage

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2213-2220

  Smith, Pam ^a   Mackintosh, Maureen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class; Disadvantage; Gender; Labour market; Migration; Nursing hierarchy; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMODIFICATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOREIGN WORKER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LICENSING; MIGRATION; MORALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RACE; SEX; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMODIFICATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LICENSURE, NURSING; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; MORALE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PREJUDICE; SEX; SOCIAL CLASS; STATE MEDICINE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 36349017171     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.01984.x     Document Type: Article

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