How does the contemporary restructuring of health care affect
nursing practice? Increasingly since the 1970s, and more
intensively under recent reforms, Canadian health care is the focus
of information-supported, professionally based management. In
"Managing to Nurse," Janet M. Rankin and Marie L. Campbell probe
the operation of this new form of hospital and its effect
management on nurses and nursing.
Written from the nurse's perspective, this institutional
ethnography discovers a major transformation in the nature of
nursing and associated patient care: the work is now organized
according to an accounting logic that embeds a cost-orientation
into care-related activities. Rankin and Campbell illustrate how
nurses adapt to this new reality just as they, themselves,
perpetuate it - how they learn to recognize their adaptations as
professionally correct and as an adequate basis for nursing
judgement. Although "Managing to Nurse" may contradict contemporary
beliefs about health care reform, the insiders' account that it
provides is undeniable evidence that nurses' caring work is being
undermined and patient care is being eroded, sometimes dangerously,
by current health care agendas.
General
Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press
|
Country of origin: |
Canada |
Series: |
Heritage |
Release date: |
April 2006 |
First published: |
April 2006 |
Authors: |
Christopher Holman
|
Dimensions: |
228 x 151 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
224 |
Edition: |
2 Rev Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8020-3791-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Health systems & services >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8020-3791-7 |
Barcode: |
9780802037916 |
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