Sex Role Identity and Perceptions of Nurse Role Discrepancy

Forrester, David Anthony

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“…Wilensky (1964) has referred to nursing as an example of “a profession that is still in a formative stage, or a kind of a profession in borderline.” When the status of nurses is interpreted this way, it is reported that different gender attitudes affect the decision‐making and autonomy of nurses on the job: the more strongly that traditional gender attitudes are held, the less self‐assertive and capable nurses are of independent decision‐making (Bonnie, 1976; Joseph, 1985). Also, many nurses exhibit feelings of role contradiction when raising problems regarding diverse work content and ambiguous roles (Forrester, 1988).…”

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Gender role attitudes of hospital nurses in Japan: Their relation to burnout, perceptions of physician–nurse collaboration, evaluation of care, and intent to continue working

Ushiro

Nakayama

2010

Japan Journal Nursing Sci

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Aim: The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between gender role attitudes of nurses and burnout, perceptions of physician-nurse collaboration, evaluation of care, and intent to continue working. Methods:The subjects of the study were 798 full-time female nurses working in non-managerial positions at three large hospitals. We analyzed five key survey items -gender role attitudes, burnout, perceptions of physician-nurse collaboration, evaluation of care, and intent to continue working -and showed how these items are related using structural equation modeling. Results: Whether nurses' gender role attitudes were egalitarian or conservative, we found a direct positive effect on burnout. However, a conservative gender role attitude not only showed a direct positive effect on burnout, but also exhibited a direct negative effect on the intent to continue working and on the collaboration constructs cooperativeness with physicians. Conservative gender role attitudes thus have an indirect positive effect on burnout through the corollaries cooperativeness and intent to continue working. We found that cooperativeness not only has a direct negative effect on burnout, but also an indirect negative effect on burnout through evaluation of care. Conclusions: It was found that nurses harboring conservative gender role attitudes are more vulnerable to burnout, and also less likely to improve their quality of care.

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Gender role attitudes of hospital nurses in Japan: Their relation to burnout, perceptions of physician–nurse collaboration, evaluation of care, and intent to continue working

Ushiro

Nakayama

2010

Japan Journal Nursing Sci

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“…Such bureaucratic and professional authority expects the nurse to be both independent (capable of being goal directed, task orientated and able to enforce administrative rules and regulations) and dependent (adherent to prescribed routine, deferent and submissive to authority). 50 The decision by strike committees to exclude the technical skills of venepuncture and the intravenous administration of drugs is an interesting one. It suggests an attempt at playing patriarchal games towards highlighting what nurses feel is their valuable contribution to the delivery of health care.…”

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An Analysis of How The Irish Times Portrayed Irish Nursing During the 1999 Strike

Clarke

O’Neill

2001

Nurs Ethics

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The aim of this article is to explore the images of nursing that were presented in the media during the recent industrial action by nurses and midwives in the Republic of Ireland. Although both nurses and midwives took industrial strike action, the strike was referred to as 'the nurses' strike' and both nurses and midwives were generally referred to by the generic term 'nurses'. Data were gathered from the printed news media of The Irish Times over a period of one month--4 October to 4 November 1999--which included the nine days of the strike. Although we limited the source of our data to just one newspaper, the findings do provide an image of how nurses and nursing care are viewed by both health professionals and the public. This image appeared to give a higher value to masculine cultural codes and the performance of technical skills, whereas acts associated with feminine cultural codes of caring were considered of lower value.

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Professional identity: values embedded in meaningful nursing practice

Fagermoen

1997

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The main research question addressed in this two-phase descriptive study was 'What are the values underlying nurses' professional identity as expressed through what is meaningful in nurses' work? The first phase was a survey of 767 randomly selected nurses with one, five, and 10 years of experience in nursing, and in the second phase data on work-meaning were obtained from a convenience sample of six nurses by in-depth interviews eliciting nurses' stories about providing care to patients. Content analysis of survey-data revealed that the nurses held both other-oriented and self-oriented values, i.e. moral and work values. Human dignity and altruism were the most prominent moral values, whereas the most significant work-values were intellectual and personal stimulation. The interview-data, analysed by means of hermeneutic and narrative analysis, revealed a greater diversity in value-expressions compared to the survey-data. Altruism, the moral orientation of care, was the overall philosophy, and human dignity appeared as a core value. The nine additional values appeared to be linked to human dignity either by arising from it and/or being aimed at preserving this basic value.

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Sex Role Identity and Perceptions of Nurse Role Discrepancy

Cited by 5 publications

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Gender role attitudes of hospital nurses in Japan: Their relation to burnout, perceptions of physician–nurse collaboration, evaluation of care, and intent to continue working

Gender role attitudes of hospital nurses in Japan: Their relation to burnout, perceptions of physician–nurse collaboration, evaluation of care, and intent to continue working

An Analysis of How The Irish Times Portrayed Irish Nursing During the 1999 Strike

Professional identity: values embedded in meaningful nursing practice

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