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Nurses' Conflicting Values in Competitively Managed Health Care
Author(s) -
David Beverly Ann
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00466.x
Subject(s) - nursing , health care , value (mathematics) , medicine , political science , computer science , machine learning , law
The combined effect of the medical model of care and a philosophy of health care as a business is threatening the complex human interactions that are essential to nursing. In the United States, nursing in 1999 is practiced in an environment that restricts understanding of its value and purpose.