From profession to commodity

Article Abstract:

Community nursing has a low profile in the minds of the people who are deciding primary-care nursing policy, despite the essential part that community nursing plays in health care provision. Health visitors now often work from within a doctor's surgery because it allows doctors to fulfill the terms of their contracts. The health visitor function is seen as a commodity to be utilized, rather than a valued profession in its own right. District nurses carry out medical services for doctors in general practice, and this gives doctors increasing power over what they do.

Management, Community health nursing, Health services administration

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Hear today, gone tomorrow

Article Abstract:

A description is presented of the experiences of a 36-year-old male nurse who became partially deaf after suffering from an acoustic neuroma following a viral infection. The adaptations which he has made are discussed.

Care and treatment, Human resource management, Services, Hospitals, Nurses, Acoustic neuroma

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