Buch, Englisch
ISBN: 978-0-335-23133-1
Verlag: Open University Press
* 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.
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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.