Health care assistants' and mental attendants' daily work tasks in acute hospital care

To describe the work and the everyday activities of health care assistants (HCAs) and mental attendants (MAs) in acute hospital care. Several caring duties have been delegated from registered nurses to HCAs and MAs the last decade. Their tasks can either be rather demanding and qualified or be quite...

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