Hamlin L. - Perioperative Nursing - EBook-epub: An Introduction

This book is based on my PhD research. Thanks are due:

To the staff of Woodlands Hospital, I am deeply grateful to them for their friendliness and for their candour in sharing with me their social worlds.

To my supervisors, Veronica James and Robert Dingwall, for their constructive criticism and for forcing me to ask difficult questions. I owe them an enormous intellectual debt.

To David Hughes for giving me opportunities after graduation that laid important foundations for this work and for his continuing encouragement and friendship.

To Alan Aldridge, Michael King and the late Annie Oakley, for saying the right things at the right time. Without them none of this would ever have happened.

To my partner, Richie, for his unwavering encouragement and support and invaluable technical guidance.

To my children, Sam, Megan and Susie, for understanding beyond their years, and to Mum and Tanya, for always being there.

To Alison Pilnick, Lesley Griffiths, Christina Luke, Ben Hannigan, Morag Prowse and Patricia Lyne who have been so much more than colleagues.

To Patricia Lyne, Morag Prowse and Carl May for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript and also Robert Dingwall, who has been particularly generous with his time and advice.

To Christine Greenow for administrative support.

The writing of the book was greatly facilitated by a sabbatical from the Nursing, Health and Social Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. The original project was funded by a Department of Health Nursing and Therapists Research Training Studentship. My thanks to Elizabeth Scott and her colleagues in the Research and Development Division. The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not represent those of the Department of Health.

This book employs material which has appeared in a different form elsewhere. Chapters 5 and 7 draw on Allen, D. (2000) Doing occupational demarcation: the boundary-work of nurse managers in a District General Hospital, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29(3):326 356, by permission of Sage Publications, Inc. Chapter 6 draws on Allen, D. (1998) Record-keeping and routine nursing practice: The view from the wards, Journal of Advanced Nursing : 122330, by permission of Blackwell Science, Ltd, UK. Chapter 7 draws on Allen, D. (1997) The nursingmedical boundary: a negotiated order?, Sociology of Healthand Illness (4): 498520, by permission of Blackwell Publishers and Allen, D. and Lyne, P. (1997) Nurses flexible working practices: some ethnographic insights into clinical effectiveness, Clinical Effectivenessin Nursing, (3): 13140 by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone. Chapter 8 uses material from Allen, D. (2000) Ill tell you what suits me best if you dont mind me saying, Lay participation in health care, Nursing Inquiry, in press Blackwell Science Ltd, UK.