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Nursing schools: Dumbing down or reaching up?
Author(s) -
Darbyshire Philip,
Thompson David R.,
Watson Roger
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/jonm.12730
Subject(s) - managerialism , bureaucracy , corporatization , value (mathematics) , sociology , nursing , political science , public relations , medicine , law , politics , machine learning , computer science
Universities and their nursing faculties are changing dramatically. Rather than serving as bastions of knowledge generation, professional innovation, curation and dissemination of knowledge, many have become corporatised monoliths intent on a perverse form of utilitarianism on steroids. Their sole function it seems is to produce commoditised 'outputs' that can contribute to the 'knowledge economy'. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.