title: Ghost in the machine.
abstract: Management insistence that nursing must be reduced to measurable tasks is undermining the intuitive and creative essence of the profession and removing it from its wider context, says Elizabeth Hart.
authors: Nottingham University.
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authors: Hart
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D013222:State Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D006113:United Kingdom; D016526:Workload