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The Invisible Work of Nurses - Hospitals, Organisation and Healthcare (Paperback)
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The Invisible Work of Nurses - Hospitals, Organisation and Healthcare (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
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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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