RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A comparison of the activities and opinions of attached and employed nurses in general practice
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 483
OP 489
VO 30
IS 217
A1 B. L. E. C. Reedy
A1 A. V. Metcalfe
A1 M. de Roumanie
A1 D. J. Newell
YR 1980
UL http://bjgp.org/content/30/217/483.abstract
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.