Managerialism and nursing : beyond oppression and profession /

Managerialism and Nursing examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole. Using an innovative study of nurses conducted by the Royal College of Nursing, Michael Traynor analyses the relationship between nurses and their managers, looking at the...

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Main Author: Traynor, Michael, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0585446873
9780585446875
020302477X
9780203024775
0415178959
9780415178952
0415178967
9780415178969
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Enlightenment, rationality and colonisation; Sawing off the branch and sitting: the context of the postmodern; Erasing the boundaries: speech into text, comment into text; Locating nursing within the discourses of the Enlightenment; The origins of the texts: management interviews and nursing questionnaires; The interviews part I: discourses of rationality; The interviews part II: subjects and objects, autonomy and tradition; Morality and self-sacrifice: the nurses' comments; Beyond oppression and profession.