The legal and professional status of nursing / Mary Chiaralla; foreword by Alison Kitson.

Edinburgh : Churchill Livingstone, 2002.

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Nursing -- Law and legislation.

Nursing.

Medical laws and legislation.

Medical personnel.

Medical care -- Law and legislation.

Table of cases; Table of statutes; Part 1. Searching for the 'true' status of the nurse: 1. One nurse, four hearings, five images; 2. Pulling the images apart; Part 2. Images of women in the workforce: 3. The nurse as a ministering angel; 4. Introducing the nurse as a domestic worker; 5. The nurse as a domestic worker; Part 3. Medical domination: 6. The nurse as the doctor's handmaiden; 7. The nurse as subordinate professional; Part 4. Towards autonomy: 8. Autonomy in regulation and management; 9. Autonomy in knowledge and education; 10. Autonomy in clinical decision making; Part 5. Living in a legal and professional shadow land: 11. Bringing the images together; 12. Speaking out from the shadows; Appendix: The five images of the nurse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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xx, 291p