Temp nurses go digital
Examining gig care in US nursing homes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chia Yu Lien (0000-0003-2232-4295, Department of Anthropology Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis Missouri USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 542-559 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13600 |
| PMID | 36575601 |
| OpenAlex | W4312213789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
Nursing homes in the United States have long struggled with a shortage of nurses, which has now been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. In response to the shortage, nursing homes have increasingly used temporary services to fill nursing vacancies. Existing studies have examined the care provided by temporary nurses from traditional staffing agencies; however, at the time of writing, no studies have examined care provided by their counterparts from digital gig platforms. This article reports the findings from 15 months of fieldwork (6/2019-8/2019; 6/2020-5/2021) at two US nursing homes, both characterised by high gig-nurse usage. I asked the following questions: how nurses engage in and perceive gig services, and how the use of gig services affects the work environment and everyday care. The findings indicate that gig services (1) offer gig nurses monetary incentives at the expense of exaggerating the budget deficit of nursing homes, (2) increase gig nurses' working autonomy while creating a loophole in managerial oversight, (3) lead to an uneven distribution of duties between gig nurses and nursing home staff, which demoralises the latter. Taken together, gig services, while empowering the gig nurses, have resulted in the precarisation of nursing home staffing and care environments
Autonomy · Business · Economic shortage · Government (linguistics) · Incentive · Nurse education · Nursing shortage · Political science · Staffing · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing
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The Performative Power of Digital Nursing Platforms
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Examining liminality in professional practice, relational identities, and career prospects in resource-constrained health systems
On-Demand and Marketplace Platforms
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Beyond Caring
Hustle and Gig
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Intimate Labors
Labors of Love
The Managed Heart
Relating through differences
Demand for Temporary Agency Nurses and Nursing Shortages
Personalised risk’ in paid care work and the impacts of ‘gig economy’ care platforms and other market-based organisations
It’s a Dignity Thing”
Centring Care
Of Markets And Martyrs
The Gig Economy
For Love or Money-Or Both
They'll Change What They're Doing If They Know that You're Watching
It's Like a Family
Culture Change Management in Long-Term Care
Time, space and touch at work
Uberized Care
The business of care
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |