Professional Talk: How Middle Managers Frame Care Workers as Professionals

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 47-70

  Oldenhof, Lieke ^a   Stoopendaal, Annemiek ^a   Putters, Kim ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Long term care; Middle managers; Professional talk; Professionalism; Vocational care workers

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM CARE; MANAGER; PERSONAL VALUE; PROFESSIONALISM; WORKER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PROFESSIONALISM;

EID: 84958151638     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: 15733394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-013-0269-9     Document Type: Article

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