Table of Contents

1. Nursing Role Developments: Contemporary Perspectives 2. Collaboration: Working Partnerships or Sleeping with the Enemy? 3. Clinical Management Teams: The Impact of General Management 4. The Study 5. Understanding the Context 6. Clinical Decision Making and the Hierarchies of Knowledge 7. Roles in Clinical Decision Making: Working with a Historical Legacy 8. Power and Conflict on the Clinical Decision Making Stage 9. Breaking Through the Inner Circle: Rhetoric or Reality

About the Author

Maureen A. Coombs has held senior posts in coronary care, cardiothoracic and general intensive care. She is currently Consultant Nurse Critical Care at Southampton University Hospital Trust and holds a Senior Lecturer post with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Southampton University. She has undertaken work in both policy and research with the Department of Health and professional associations towards the delivery of a contemporary critical care clinical service.