Abstract
We compared the nursing and medical activities and the opinions of nurses employed by area health authorities and nurses employed by general practitioners by interviewing a random sample of 153 nurses in 113 practices, situated in four rural and five urban area health authorities in England. The availability of a treatment room profoundly affected the work of both kinds of nurse and there were differences between them in the balance between `caring' and `technical' activities which may be largely attributed to the circumstances of their employment. However, their occupational histories and choices of employer appear to reflect both differences in their training and differences in their values about career and marriage.
Full text
PDF
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- CARTWRIGHT A., SCOTT R. The work of a nurse employed in a general practice. Br Med J. 1961 Mar 18;1(5228):807–813. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.5228.807. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Irvine D., Jeffreys M. B.M.A. Planning Unit survey of general practice 1969. Br Med J. 1971 Nov 27;4(5786):535–543. doi: 10.1136/bmj.4.5786.535. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Reedy B. L., Metcalfe A. V., de Roumanie M., Newell D. J. The social and occupational characteristics of attached and employed nurses general practice. J R Coll Gen Pract. 1980 Aug;30(217):477–482. [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Sallan S. E., Cronin C., Zelen M., Zinberg N. E. Antiemetics in patients receiving chemotherapy for cancer: a randomized comparison of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and prochlorperazine. N Engl J Med. 1980 Jan 17;302(3):135–138. doi: 10.1056/NEJM198001173020302. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Smith J. W., O'Donovan J. B. The practice nurse--a new look. Br Med J. 1970 Dec 12;4(5736):673–677. doi: 10.1136/bmj.4.5736.673. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Turner M. Point for doctors. Nurs Times. 1977 Jul 28;73(30):1144–1145. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]