The modernization of the nursing workforce : valuing the healthcare assistant / Ian Kessler, Paul Heron, Sue Dopson.

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Kessler, Ian

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computer

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online resource

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9780191651854
0191651850

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernization of the Nursing Workforce.DDC classification:

610.73 23

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RT42

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WY 193

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Contents:

1. Understanding the healthcare assistant role -- 2. Healthcare assistants: policy objectives and evidence base -- 3. Research focus, design, and methods -- 4. Healthcare assistants as a strategic resource -- 5. Backgrounds of healthcare assistants -- 6. The shape and nature of the healthcare assistant role -- 7. Consequences for healthcare assistants -- 8. Consequences for nurses -- 9. Consequences for patients -- 10. Summary and conclusions.

Summary: The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemporary HCA role has become increasingly central to the process of health service modernization. The role is now assuming even greater importance as the ramifications of financialconstraints, restructuring and other pressures on the NHS play out.The HCA role is unregulated and low paid, but by taking-

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.

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The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemporary HCA role has become increasingly central to the process of health service modernization. The role is now assuming even greater importance as the ramifications of financialconstraints, restructuring and other pressures on the NHS play out.The HCA role is unregulated and low paid, but by taking-

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