Bringing together sociological theories and nursing practice this text develops a dynamic conceptualisation of the nursing role which is rooted in the work setting. It looks at the factors which have shaped nursing work in the past and those which are likely to shape it in the future.

Nurses' work is changing in two respects: the place nursing occupies in the health care division of labour and the routine shifting of work boundaries that nurses experience in their daily work. Drawing on her detailed observations of the reality of nursing work in a district general hospi...
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South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their profession in Ireland. In every industrialized country of the world, patients today increasingly find that the nurses who care for them come from a vast array of countries. In the first book on international nurse migration, Mireille Kingma investigates one of today's most important health care trends.

The personal stories of migrant nurses that fill this book contrast the nightmarish existences of some with the successes of others. Health systems in i...
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This is a poignant study of fifty registered nurses who have chosen to specialize in the care of HIV-infected patients in New York City. The nurses explain how they and their patients come to terms with fear, anger, rejection, abandonment, and death.