JURISDICTION IN COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICES

This article focuses on community-health nursing services and their ju risdiction in Norway. The aim of the study was to analyze and gain a b etter understanding of community-nursing services' jurisdiction and ju risdictional pressure. The areas of investigation were degree of juris dictional control, pattern of pressure in the jurisdiction, and nurses ' strategies to deal with this pressure. The respondents were nurses i n public health nursing service, home nursing service, and nursing hom es. The results showed that nurses in the three different community-nu rsing services had different degrees of formal and informal control in their jurisdictions. patterns of pressure were visible both inside an d outside of the jurisdiction. Jurisdictional pressure led to strategi es that strengthened control of the work fortified professional status , or both.