title: Latvian nurses depart from Soviet ways.
abstract: As their country tries to break away from the Soviet political system, Latvian nurses try to break away from a Soviet health care system that has relegated their profession to one completely dominated by physicians. Two Latvian-born American nurses provide a glimpse of the early stages of this struggle.
authors.affiliation: St. Louis University School of Nursing.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kalnins
authors.forename: Z P
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Kalnins
mesh_terms: D003148:Communism; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D007844:Latvia; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D013222:State Medicine