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Challenges facing nurses' associations and unions: A global perspective
Author(s) -
CLARK Paul F.,
CLARK Darlene A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2003.tb00251.x
Subject(s) - citation , sociology , economic shortage , library science , state (computer science) , political science , management , law , economics , government (linguistics) , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science
Nurses are at the heart of every country's health care system. What sort of problems do they face at work? What are the coping strategies that they and their organizations pursue? Drawing on the findings of a unique global survey of nurses' associations and unions, the authors provide clear answers to these and related questions at a time when population ageing, epidemics, privatization and understaffing are putting heightened pressures on health care systems around the world. Interestingly, the priority concerns of nurses' organizations the world over have much in common despite the widely differing national contexts in which they operate.