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The Professional Nurse

Coping with Change, Now and the Future

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  • © 1995

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  1. Michael Bowman
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The problem focused

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 1-13

  3. The study — rationale, design and methodology: profile of district health authorities

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 14-29

  4. Findings of the study: résumé of the evidence and supporting data

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 30-46

  5. The job of the nurse: the data as revealed by investigation and analysis

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 47-62

  6. Nurses’ accountability and its role-related elements

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 63-73

  7. Nurses’ authority and autonomy in the context of their responsibility and accountability

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 74-85

  8. Patients: how well are their needs met?

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 86-99

  9. Nurses’ stress: parallels with other professionals

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 100-121

  10. Educational significance of findings: initiatives and proposals

    • Michael Bowman
    Pages 122-167

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 168-246
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About this book

Michael Bowman's book forms a useful reference source for Health Service staff interested in the role of the professional nurse and the dis charge of professional accountability. I am delighted that this work competently deals with nursing's dilemmas about its therapeutic role over a crucial period in its history, especially the effects of major structural change on the profession between the period from the implementation of the Salmon and Mayston Reports up to the present time and Project 2000. The picture is in Dr Bowman's opinion not a very happy one from the viewpoint of the profession. Some of the changes that have taken place have involved some loss of professional cohesion and were independent of the organizational framework of the National Health Service. Nevertheless, it is disturbing that nurses appear during the period covered to have Ilad a quite inadequate input to the shaping of Health Policy. There are already signs that the nursing profession has begun to absorb the warnings ci ted in Dr Bowman's study. However, in the wake ofthe National Health Service reforms and the implementing of a business culture in the National Health Service, nurses may find the message of this book only too familiar. That does not for one moment mean that the nursing input to corporate strategy and general direction should be defensive or reactionary. British nursing continues to be highly regarded by the general public.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Professional Nurse

  • Book Subtitle: Coping with Change, Now and the Future

  • Authors: Michael Bowman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2899-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Michael Bowman 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-56593-297-5Published: 01 January 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2899-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 246

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Nursing

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering, Health & Hospitals

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