TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen, D
TI  - The invisible work of nurses : hospitals, organisation and healthcare
T2  - Routledge advances in health and social policy
SN  - 9781138213616
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Nursing
N2  - The aim of this book is to lay the empirical and theoretical foundations for a reappraisal of the nursing contribution to society by shining a light on this invisible aspect of nurses' work. Nurses, it is argued, can be understood as focal actors in health systems and through myriad processes of 'translational mobilisation' sustain the networks through which care is organised. Not only is this work an essential driver of action, it also operates as a powerful countervailing force to the centrifugal tendencies inherent in healthcare organisations which, for all their gloss of order and rationality are in reality very loose arrangements
ER  -