1. Setting the Scene: The Complexity of Nursing Practice -- 2. Organisation of Care within the Hospital Setting -- 3. Organising Ward Life -- 4. The Nursing-Medical Relationship: Moving Patients through the Medical Domain -- 5. Nurses' Conduct: Initiating Patients into the Social Organisation of the Medical Domain -- 6. Assessing Patients' Needs -- 7. Bedside Care and the Visibility of Nurses' Work -- App. 1. Theoretical Nursing Assessment: the Construction of a Profession -- App. 2. Older People and Acute Medicine -- App. 3. Methods and Methodology -- App. 4. The Nursing Records -- App. 5. Ward Routines -- App. 6. The Admission Procedure (from the Hospital Procedure Manual) -- App. 7. Nursing Record Charts -- App. 8. Examples of Nursing Records
Summary
"The Conduct of Care provides completely new insights into hospital life in a contemporary health service under strain. Illustrating how acute medical practice is divided between doctors and nurses, this major new ethnography reveals how nurses organise medicine as well as care. Joanna Latimer's analysis charts the powerful impact of nurses' practices upon the treatment of patients." "The Conduct of Care will inspire practising nurses and nursing students. Based on substantive empirical research, the book is a resource for any researcher, educator and policy-maker with an interest in the organisation and sociology of medicine and health care."--BOOK JACKET
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-166) and index
