Nurse professionalisation and traditional values in Poland and Greece
International Journal of Public Sector Management
ISSN: 0951-3558
Article publication date: 1 April 2003
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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Citation
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
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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