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The modernization of the nursing workforce : valuing the healthcare assistant /
The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford Univ. Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemporary HCA role has become increasingly central to the process of health service modernization. The role is now assuming even greater importance as the ramifications of financialconstraints, restructuring and other pressures on the NHS play out.The HCA role is unregulated and low paid, but by taking- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191651854 0191651850 |