Aim Integrated care pathways (ICP) are management technologies which formalise
multidisciplinary team-working and enable professionals to examine their roles and …

This article examines field studies of nursing work published in the English language
between 1993 and 2003 as the first step towards an empirically based reformulation of the …

Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health
policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas …

In a recent paper in Sociology of Health and Illness, Svensson (1996) makes the case for
adopting the negotiated order perspective as the most appropriate theoretical framework for …

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is
through its relationships with patients–whether these are absent, present, good, bad or …

This article re‐examines insider–outsider relationships in nursing ethnographies of
healthcare settings as a case study in the wider sociological debate around reflexivity in field …

Bringing together sociological theories and nursing practice this text develops a dynamic
conceptualisation of the nursing role which is rooted in the work setting. It looks at the factors …

This article examines how nurse managers attempted to accomplish the formal boundaries
of clinical nursing in a large UK district general hospital. The study was undertaken in the …

Care pathways are multidisciplinary care management technologies which map out
chronologically activities in a healthcare process. In the UK, they are advanced as a …

Drawing on end of life care as an illustrative case, this paper critically examines the
provision of care in the home, identifying a number of inherent tensions. For 60 years the …