Levi M
J Health Polit Policy Law. 1980 Summer;5(2):333-53. doi: 10.1215/03616878-5-2-333.
Registered nurses have been attempting to achieve professional status for nearly a century. Historical investigation of their efforts in the United States and a case study of the 1976 Seattle Nurses' strike indicate major obstacles to the professionalizing project. The most important of these are the inability of the nurses to control the labor supply, and their failure to define or monopolize a distinct set of tasks. One result is functional redundancy: there is no job nurses perform that is not also performed by some other occupation.
近一个世纪以来，注册护士一直在努力获得专业地位。对她们在美国所做努力的历史调查以及对1976年西雅图护士罢工的案例研究表明，专业化进程存在重大障碍。其中最重要的是护士无法控制劳动力供应，以及她们未能界定或垄断一套独特的任务。结果之一是功能冗余：没有一项护士执行的工作是其他职业不做的。
