title: Professional accountability and industrial action: contradictory or compatible?
abstract: The decision of the RCN to jettison its rule forbidding industrial action has generated a great deal of debate, much of which is fairly ill-informed. This article examines the industrial action issue against the background of the UKCC's Code of Professional Conduct, explores the arguments for and against and draws some conclusions.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pyne
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011361:Professional Competence; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D013317:Strikes, Employee; D006113:United Kingdom