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The implications of healthcare reforms for the profession of nursing
Author(s) -
Dingwall Robert,
Allen Davina
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1800.2001.00100.x
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , mythology , work (physics) , nursing , health care , realism , sociology , psychology , political science , public relations , medicine , epistemology , law , history , mechanical engineering , philosophy , machine learning , computer science , engineering , classics
The implications of healthcare reforms for the profession of nursing This paper offers a wide‐ranging analysis of concerns that the value of emotion work within nursing is being eroded. We examine the occupation’s historical development to argue that, in so far as emotion work has any essence within nursing, it is as an occupational myth which has been deployed to legitimate nurses’ jurisdictional claims. We argue that recent developments in health‐care raise questions about the benefits of claims of this kind and suggest that a little more realism about the nature of nursing work might make for a more sustainable professional future.