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Coombs, Maureen A., 1959-.

Power and conflict between doctors and nurses : breaking through the inner circle in clinical care / Maureen A. Coombs. - New York : Routledge, 2004. - xviii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-143) and index.

Nursing role developments : contemporary perspectives -- Collaboration : working partnerships or sleeping with the enemy? -- Clinical management teams : the impact of general management -- The study -- Understanding the context -- Clinical decision making and the hierarchies of knowledge -- Roles in clinical decision making : working with a historical legacy -- Power and conflict on the clinical decision-making stage -- Breaking through the inner circle : rhetoric or reality?.

ISBN: 0415301920

LCCN: 2003065161

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nurse and physician.
Physicians--Attitudes.
Nurses--Attitudes.
Interpersonal relations.
Clinical medicine--Great Britain.
Physician-Nurse Relations--Great Britain.
Attitude of Health Personnel--Great Britain.
Clinical Medicine--Great Britain.
Cooperative Behavior--Great Britain.
Physicians--Attitudes.
Nurses--Attitudes.
Interpersonal relations.

LC Class. No.: RT86.4 / COO