Professionalization and Expertise In Care Work: TheHoarding and Discarding of Tasks in Nursing

Human Resource Management

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 737-752

  Kessler, Ian ^a   Heron, Paul ^b   Dopson, Sue ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assistant role: Britain; Health care; Nursing; Professionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942550064     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21695     Document Type: Article

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