Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a
care-giving occupation. It is through its relationships with
patients whether these are absent, present, good, bad or
indifferent that modern day nursing is defined. Yet nursing work
extends far beyond direct patient care activities. Across the
spectrum of locales in which they are employed, nurses, in numerous
ways, support and sustain the delivery and organisation of health
services. In recent history, however, this wider work has generally
been regarded as at best an adjunct to the core nursing function,
and at worse responsible for taking nurses away from their real
work with patients. Beyond its identity as the other to
care-giving, little is known about this element of nursing
practice.
Drawing on extensive observational research of the everyday work
in a UK hospital, and insights from practice-based approaches and
actor network theory, the aim of this book is to lay the empirical
and theoretical foundations for a reappraisal of the nursing
contribution to society by shining a light on this invisible aspect
of nurses work. Nurses, it is argued, can be understood as focal
actors in health systems and through myriad processes of
translational mobilisation sustain the networks through which care
is organised. Not only is this work an essential driver of action,
it also operates as a powerful countervailing force to the
centrifugal tendencies inherent in healthcare organisations which,
for all their gloss of order and rationality, are in reality very
loose arrangements."
The Invisible Work of Nurses "will be interest to academics and
students across a number of fields, including nursing, medical
sociology, organisational studies, health management, science and
technology studies, and improvement science."
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