Nurses’ perceptions of their professional rights

Kangasniemi, Mari; Stıevano, Alessandro; Pietilä, Anna‐Maija

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“…Despite these radical shifts, anecdotal as well as scientific evidence suggests that variations in the health policies and legislations have not necessarily been reflected in workplace changes (Tousijn, 2000;Goopy, 2005;Barazzetti et al, 2005). A recent national survey showed that, despite new legislations, most nurses still complained that their legal rights are ignored by management staff because of nurses' low status within health organisations (Kangasniemi et al, 2013;Cipolla and Sena, 2014). Some have attributed the perpetuation of nursing subordination to the fact that nurses' higher education is still broadly regulated by the medical profession, with very few nurses employed as researchers or university professors (Sansoni, 1995).…”

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Separating, replacing, intersecting: The influence of context on the construction of the medical-nursing boundary

Liberati

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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The distribution of work, knowledge, and responsibilities between doctors and nurses is a longstanding object of interest for medical sociologists. Whereas the strategies through which nurses and doctors construct their professional boundary have been thoroughly examined, little is known about why the regulation of the medical-nursing boundary varies across care settings. In the article, I argue that this gap in knowledge can be attributed to insufficient examination of the 'negotiation context', namely the features of the social and organisational environment that directly affect doctor-nurse boundary negotiations. Adopting a negotiated order perspective, and drawing data from a hospital ethnography, the article describes the different ways of constructing the medical-nursing boundary (separating, replacing, and intersecting) which were observed in three different care settings (a neurology ward, a neurosurgical ward, and an intensive care unit). Constant comparison of the observed interactional patterns led to the identification of three factors that significantly affected the construction of the medical-nursing boundary, specifically: patients' state of awareness, the type of clinical approach adopted by nurses and doctors, and the level of acuity on the ward. The article advances our knowledge of the medical-nursing boundary by shedding light on its flexible and contextual nature and by adding further nuance to the boundary-blurring/boundary-reinforcing dichotomy. New features of the 'negotiation context' are identified that enable more convincing explanations of why the medical-nursing boundary varies across care settings. Finally, the study advances the negotiated order theory by offering a framework for considering the structural differences that shape local negotiations.

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Separating, replacing, intersecting: The influence of context on the construction of the medical-nursing boundary

Liberati

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Nurses believe they value dignity, 50 –52 but how that influences their actions with others and how they are able to nurture this value internally and in regard to their own lives are not well understood. In recent years, research has begun to explore the construct professional dignity , 4,5,53 which focuses upon dignified and undignified treatment of nurses in workplace environments and considers the impact on the nurse’s dignity in a professional context. The actual awareness and valuing of dignity in the consciousness of the working nurse is an aspect of professional dignity, but this personal sense of one’s dignity includes psychological and spiritual elements as well.…”

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Exploring nurses' personal dignity, global self-esteem and work satisfaction

Sturm¹,

Dellert

2015

Nurs Ethics

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“…21 Research conducted in Italy suggests that nurses throughout history did not have rights similar to other health care professionals. 22 The results of our study show that nursing in health care institutions does not operate within the framework of autonomy and that nurses should be more involved in policymaking. This result could explain the numerous problems in nursing: the low status of health care, poor financial status of nurses, unregulated issue of education and vocation of nurses, as well as poor motivation for improving the quality of health care.…”

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Attitudes and opinions of health care students of Medical Faculty in Banja Luka about study program and nursing as a profession

Jović¹,

Knežević²,

Skrobić³

et al. 2015

Scripta Medica

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Introduction: The level of education quality of medical health care graduates (Bachelors of Health care and Nursing) depends on curriculum quality. Knowing what motivates students to enroll medical health care studies and development of professional and academic career are of great importance for education as well as the practice. Aim of the study: To see if there is a difference in attitudes and opinions between 1st year students and 4th year students about health care study program and nursing as a profession, students motivations for enrolling the program and their expectations about possibilities to develop personally, professionally and scientifically after graduating. Patients and Methods: 55 Health care students of Medical Faculty University of Banja Luka (1st year 37 and 2nd year 18 students) were a sample. Research was conducted by using anonymous, original questionnaire which was written for the needs of this research. SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) version 20. was used for data processing, and Windows, operating system, for data analysis. Results: Conducted research shows that material component, with possibility of finding better job and willingness to care for other people are major criteria which motivate students to choose nursing study. Health care students of both generations graded study program with 3,22 ± 0,76, and there was statistically significant difference (p<0.001) concerning access to literature and companion paper. Both generations of students have positive attitudes about nursing as a profession. Majority of the students (1st year = 77,8%; 4th year = 75,7%) showed interest for further academic development after graduating the study of Health care. A large number of students chose going abroad (1st year 67,6% ; 4th year 77,8%), whereas minority of the students have desire to stay in their own country after graduating. Conclusion: Motives for enrolling the study of Health care in this country and in other countries have no significant differences, and the most frequently cited reasons are possibility of finding better job, and desire to help other people. Academic study program of Health care should be extremely high-quality and alluring enough to draw attention of young students as well as the older students.

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Nurses’ perceptions of their professional rights

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

Separating, replacing, intersecting: The influence of context on the construction of the medical-nursing boundary

Separating, replacing, intersecting: The influence of context on the construction of the medical-nursing boundary

Exploring nurses' personal dignity, global self-esteem and work satisfaction

Attitudes and opinions of health care students of Medical Faculty in Banja Luka about study program and nursing as a profession

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