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Nurse professionalisation and traditional values in Poland and Greece

Mike Dent (School of Health, Staffordshire University, Stafford, UK)

International Journal of Public Sector Management

ISSN: 0951-3558

Article publication date: 1 April 2003

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Abstract

This paper examines the similarities and variations in the professional and work organisation of nursing in Greece and Poland. It evaluates the evidence of “convergence” as opposed to “embeddedness” in the professional and gendered organisation of nursing in these two countries. The feminised character of nursing is discussed, in relation to the family within the configuration of health‐care services. This issue also relates to the clientelistic relations and familialism that pervade health‐care delivery in both countries – although for different historical and cultural reasons – and which reflect and reinforce patriarchical relations within these societies.

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Dent, M. (2003), "Nurse professionalisation and traditional values in Poland and Greece", International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 153-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550310468000

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