PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Reedy, B. L. E. C.
AU  - Metcalfe, A. V.
AU  - de Roumanie, M.
AU  - Newell, D. J.
TI  - A comparison of the activities and opinions of attached and employed nurses in general practice
DP  - 1980 Aug 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 483--489
VI  - 30
IP  - 217
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/30/217/483.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/30/217/483.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1980 Aug 01; 30
AB  - 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.