Gender and the professional predicament in nursing

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Gender and the professional predicament in nursing

Celia Davies

Open University Press, 1995

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Bibliography: p. [197]-212

Includes index

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: pbk ISBN 9780335194025

内容説明

Gender and the Professional Predicament in Nursing examines the ways in which our understanding of nursing is gendered, and how our notion of nursing is connected to our idea of what it is to be a woman. It explores the implications this connection has for the status of nursing as a profession, and re-examines some of the fundamental questions that the nursing profession has tried to address, such as: * what is nursing care? * who should do it? * why is it so difficult to manage the provision of nursing care? Gender and the Professional Predicament in Nursing demonstrates that once nurses try to define and shape the nature of their work they are marginalized or silenced. Frequent descriptions of them as 'sentimental', 'divided' or 'incompetent' highlight the need to understand nurses' exclusion from policy debates, and why their voices are so seldom heard. Celia Davies contends that in a society divided by gender, defining nursing as women's work is deeply contradictory. We value nurses but devalue nursing. She suggests that alongside the debates about managerial efficiency in the NHS we need another kind of debate about how we organize health and social care, about what we mean by professionalism and about the worth of caring work. This book is important reading for students of women's studies, nursing, allied professions in health and medicine, policy makers and human resource managers.

目次

Preface Introduction: The Discontents of Nurses Part One: Gendered Worlds On gender, Identity and Action The Masculinity of Organizational Life Part Two: The Disorders of Nursing Nursing Manpower: What's in a Name? Practice: The Polo Mint Problem Educational Reform: Public Affirmation of the Worth of Nursing? Part Three: Beyond the Parameters of Profession Professionalism and the Conundrum of Care Managing to Care in the New NHS Conclusion Appendix: Gender and Nursing: A Brief Guide to the Literature Bibliography.
巻冊次

: hb ISBN 9780335194032

内容説明

This text examines the ways in which our understanding of nursing is gendered, and how our notion of nursing is connected to our idea of what it is to be a woman. It explores the implications this connection has for the status of nursing as a profession, and re-examines some of the fundamental questions that the nursing profession has tried to address, such as: what is nursing care?; who should do it?; why is it so difficult to manage the provision of nursing care? "Gender and the Professional Predicament in Nursing" demonstrates that once nurses try to define and shape the nature of their work they are marginalized or silenced. Frequent descriptions of them as "sentimental", "divided" or "incompetent" highlight the need to understand nurses' exclusion from policy debates, and why their voices are so seldom heard. Celia Davies contends that in a society divided by gender, defining nursing as women's work is deeply contradictory. We value nurses but devalue nursing. She suggests that alongside the debates about managerial efficiency in the NHS we need another kind of debate about how we organize health and social care, about what we mean by professionalism and about the worth of caring work. This book should be useful reading for students of women's studies, nursing, allied professions in health and medicine, policy-makers and human-resource managers.

目次

  • Introduction: The Discontents of Nurses. Part One Gendered Worlds: On gender, Identity and Action
  • The Masculinity of Organizational Life. Part Two The Disorders of Nursing: Nursing Manpower: What's in a Name?
  • Practice: The Polo-Mint Problem
  • Educational Reform: Public Affirmation of the Worth of Nursing? Part Three Beyond the Parameters of Profession: Professionalism and the Conundrum of Care
  • Managing to Care in the New NHS. Appendix: Gender and Nursing - A Brief Guide to the Literature.

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