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The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant (Record no. 57543)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780191651854
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Personal name Kessler, Ian
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Title The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant
Medium [electronic resource]
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (261 p.)
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General note Description based upon print version of record.
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Formatted contents note Cover; Contents; Glossary of terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Understanding the healthcare assistant role; 2 Healthcare assistants: policy objectives and evidence base; 3 Research focus, design, and methods; 4 Healthcare assistants as a strategic resource; 5 Backgrounds of healthcare assistants; 6 The shape and nature of the healthcare assistant role; 7 Consequences for healthcare assistants; 8 Consequences for nurses; 9 Consequences for patients; 10 Summary and conclusions; References; Appendix; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
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Summary, etc. [electronic resource] :
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Summary, etc. The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemporary HCA role has become increasingly central to the process of health service modernization. The role is now assuming even greater importance as the ramifications of financialconstraints, restructuring and other pressures on the NHS play out.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 timelyevidence 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 3,000 members of staff and hospital patients.The unusual richness of the data allows a definitive 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 withtraining and education policy.
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Personal name Heron, Paul
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Personal name Dopson, Sue
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