Who Cared for the Carers?
A history of the occupational health of nurses, 1880-1948
This book compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. In the process it reveals the ways national ideas about the organisation of nursing impacted on the lives of ordinary nurses. It explains why the management of nurses' health changed over time and between places, and sets these changes within a wider context of social, political and economic history. Today, high rates of sickness absence in the nursing profession attract increasing criticism. Nurses took more days off sick in 2011 than private sector employe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0285-0
- EAN: 9781526102850
- Produktnummer: 27906743
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 325 KB
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Debbie Palmer is Associate Lecturer in Medical History at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
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