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Foner, Nancy, 1945-

The caregiving dilemma : work in an American nursing home / Nancy Foner. - 1st pbk. ed. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995, �1994. - 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.

Setting the context: the nursing home world -- Patients: pressures, frustrations, and satisfactions -- Institutional demands: the "iron cage" of the nursing home -- Supervisors and the nursing hierarchy -- Family ties -- Work culture in the nursing home.

ISBN: 9780520917132 0520917138 0585130019 9780585130019 9780520203372 0520203372

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nursing home care.
Nurses' aides--Job stress.
Long-term care of the sick.
Soins en �etablissements de soins, de cure, etc.
Aides-infirmiers--Stress d�u au travail.
Soins �a long terme.
MEDICAL--Long-Term Care.
MEDICAL--Nursing Home Care.
Long-term care of the sick.
Nurses' aides--Job stress.
Nursing home care.
Long-Term Care.
Nursing Homes.
Nursing Assistants.
Stress, Psychological.
Job Satisfaction.

Subjects--Index Terms: Residential care Personnel.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RT120.L64 / F66 1995eb

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1/6