What is it about?

Currently, the health system is focused on a series of objectives to reduce costs, based on a market ethic and does not focus on the quality of care and autonomy of patients. This makes professionals, and in particular nurses, become mere agents of risk and can not develop their patient-centered practice

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Why is it important?

Currently, the health system is focused on a series of objectives to reduce costs, based on a market ethic and does not focus on the quality of care and autonomy of patients. This makes professionals, and in particular nurses, become mere agents of risk and can not develop their patient-centered practice.

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We continue to work on the analysis of the impact of interprofessional relationships, management models and professional-patient relationships to establish decision-making models promoting patient autonomy

Jesús Molina-Mula
Universitat de les Illes Balears

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This page is a summary of: Instrumentalisation of the health system: An examination of the impact on nursing practice and patient autonomy, Nursing Inquiry, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12201.
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