Task orientated nursing in a tuberculosis control programme in South Africa: where does it come from and what keeps it going?
Task oriented nursing is associated with traditional hospital ward organisational practice. This paper describes task orientation in a tuberculosis control programme which forms part of the public health system in Cape Town, South Africa. Task oriented practice is illustrated with clinical data from...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 1001 - 1010 |
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Elsevier Science
April 2002
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