Comparing professions through actor-centred governance: community nursing in Britain and Germany

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Actor-centered governance is introduced as a framework to be used for comparing nursing professions in Germany and the United Kingdom. This method helps identify different institution types, interaction among actors, and interrelationships between actors and institutions for a more robust cross-national understanding.

Germany, Management dynamics, Methods, International aspects, Comparative analysis, Social science research, Cross-cultural studies, Cross cultural studies

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Alert assistants in managing chronic illness: the case of mothers and teenage sons

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The caregiving of mothers of chronically ill teenage boys is discussed. The gendered ways these boys lived with chronic illness and mothers' perceptions of the self-care abilities of their sons made up the mothers' perceptions of their caregiving duties. Dilemmas for the caregiver are also discussed.

Care and treatment, Behavior, Mother and child, Mother-child relations, Chronically ill children

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'They'll still get the bodily care'. Discourses of care and relationships between nurses and health care assistants in the NHS

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Issues are discussed regarding the response of nurses and health care assistants in the British National Health Service to health care reform and the routinization and deskilling involved. The nurses' ambivalence seems to limit their effectiveness in resisting reform.

Human resource management, United Kingdom. National Health Service, Nurses' aides

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