PMID: 15338530Sep 2, 2004Paper

Home nursing in the Netherlands since 1950

Gewina
Hannerieke van Der BoomFred Stevens

Abstract

This article describes home nursing in the Netherlands between 1950 and 2004. The developments in this period are described form the theoretical perspective on professions of Andrew Abbott: 'professions are exclusive occupational groups applying somewhat abstract knowledge to particular cases'. In 1950, home nursing was an all-round profession providing home nursing care and preventive care to all categories of patients, mainly in their own homes. It was - and still is - a profession situated in the 'periphery' of the health care system, where care and support to patients with pain, suffering and disabilities because of age or chronic illness are considered as belonging to a separate task domain, relatively independent of the mainly curative activities that are performed in the 'medical centre' of health care, especially in the academic hospitals. Typical compared to other countries is that an extensive network of private initiatives, in the form of Cross Organisations of different denominational signatures, existed in the Netherlands until 1990, covering the whole country with home nursing services. In that year, the provision of home nursing and home help were integrated and most home nursing organisations merged into large, ...Continue Reading

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