1st Edition

Managerialism and Nursing Beyond Oppression and Profession

By Michael Traynor Copyright 1999

    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 contrasting ways in which each group argues its case and presents its identity.

    Managerialism and Nursing will be stimulating reading for anyone interested in the future of the health service and also serves as a highly readably introduction to postmodern approaches to analysis.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Sawing off the branch and sitting; Chapter 3 Erasing the boundaries; Chapter 4 Locating nursing within the discourses of the Enlightenment; Chapter 5 The origins of the texts; Chapter 6 The interviews; Part I; Chapter 7 The interviews; Part II; Chapter 8 Morality and self-sacrifice; Chapter 9 Beyond oppression and profession;

    Biography

    Michael Traynor studied English Literature before qualifying as a nurse and a health visitor. He is a lecturer at the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.