The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing The Healthcare Assistant
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012
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- Title
- The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing The Healthcare Assistant
- Author
- Kessler, Ian
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199694133
- ISBN 13
- 9780199694136
- Item weight
- 467.2 grams
The Hca role is unregulated and low paid, but by taking-on direct care tasks from registered nurses, the role has become politically sensitive. The Hca remains a cheap and flexible source of labour, but the unregulated role encourages dilemmas and public scrutiny over risk and patient safety. The book explores how public policy reform of the health service feeds through to impact upon the management and structure of the healthcare workforce. More specifically, the book provides a timely evidence base for the extended and growing use of the Hca role.
The book draws upon a multi-method research design from four geographically located hospital trusts in England, which during a three year period saw over 270 staff interviewed, focus groups and interviews with over 100 patients, some 275 hours of ward-based observation, and detailed survey responses from over 3000 members of staff and hospital patients.
The unusual richness of the data allows a defining examination of who undertakes the Hca role, its shape, nature and diversity, along with the consequences for those with a stake in the role - hospital managers, the assistants themselves, the patients they care for and the nurses they work alongside. Making, The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant essential reading for health care studies and public management communities, and those charged with training and ed
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About the Author
Paul Heron is a Senior Research Associate at Said Business School. His interest in health services research and, more specifically, the role of support workers in the public sector has been supported by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council and National Institute for Health Research. He has a background in survey based research and an interest in the role of surveys in mixed-methods research.
Sue Dopson is Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Faculty Dean at Saïd Business School. She is also Dean of Green Templeton College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is a noted specialist on the personal and organisational dimensions of leadership and transformational change, especially in the public and healthcare sectors. Sue has been extensively involved in some highly innovative executive development programmes. She teaches on the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme, the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, and Consulting and Coaching for Change, as well as a number of programmes delivered to clients in the Middle East. She has worked closely with organisations ranging from the UK Department of Health to Roche Pharmaceuticals. As a founding director and current member of the Oxford Health Care Management Institute, she is involved in the development of courses for the NHS. She has also worked as a tutor with Centrica
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