Nursing and Social Policy: Care in Context

by PippaGough (Author), SianMaslin-Prothero (Author), Abigail Masterson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.41

  This introductory book demonstrates the fundamental importance and relevance of social policy to the everyday practice and organization of nursing. For too long nurses have failed to acknowledge that their work exists within the wider policy context - a context which shapes and influences those decisions that control and ration health resources and impacts ultimately on the way in which nursing care itself is delivered. The book shows that in order to control the future direction of the profession, nurses must challenge and contribute constructively to the public policy agenda which neglects issues directly concerning their practice. It encourages them to create a coherent analysis of social policy and to develop their own analysis for policy.