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 …

This paper analyses the literature on the patient experience within emergency departments.
We identify six themes within the literature: waiting times, communication, cultural aspects of …

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 …

Background Context is a problem in research on health behaviour change, knowledge
translation, practice implementation and health improvement. This is because many …

A postal questionnaire survey of 10 022 staff nurses in 32 hospitals in England was
undertaken to explore the relationship between interdisciplinary teamwork and nurse …

Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best
practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves …

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 …

This paper explores the relations between management discourse and employee
subjectivity in the process of organizational change, drawing on a new empirical study of …

This article reports on research that examines newly qualified UK nurses' experiences of
implementing their ideals and values in contemporary nursing practice. Findings are …

This article is a study of the competing academic and professional identity frameworks of
lecturers whose discipline has only recently become part of the business of higher …