An ethnographic study of nurse-doctor decision making in a dermatology unit

The doctor-nurse relationship can impact on the nurses' decision-making capacity, yet very little is known about this relationship in the field of dermatology. This thesis provides an insight into the doctor-nurse relationship in the highly specialised area of dermatology, exploring how doctors...

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Main Author: Taylor, Helen
Published: University of Salford 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502804
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Summary:The doctor-nurse relationship can impact on the nurses' decision-making capacity, yet very little is known about this relationship in the field of dermatology. This thesis provides an insight into the doctor-nurse relationship in the highly specialised area of dermatology, exploring how doctors and nurses make decisions about patient care, specifically, who made the decisions, and when and where the decisions were made.