Exploring the complex realities of nursing work in Kenya and how this shapes role enactment and practice—A qualitative study

Abstract

There is a growing attention towards nursing roles in the contemporary healthcare setting, with debates about nursing roles and why nurses struggle to meet their professional standards (Harvey et al., 2020;Mantovan et al., 2020). The dilemmas and struggles nurses face in meeting individual patient care needs and consequent failure to meet their professional expectations of care are well documented (Gathara et al., 2020;Mbuthia et al., 2021). Nursing in resource-constrained settings is typified by daunting working