They'll still get the bodily care'. Discourses of care and relationships between nurses and health care assistants in the NHS

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ID2248554
AutoresNorma Daykin (0000-0002-1114-6780, University of the West of England), Brenda Clarke (University of the West of England)
Ano2000
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas349-363
Data de publicação2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.00208
OpenAlexW2075802072
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas8

This paper examines the impact of recent changes in work organisation in the NHS, drawing on research undertaken in two English hospital wards. Nurses' and health care assistants' responses to the introduction of a new skill mix are explored through qualitative interview data. The nurses' perceptions are explored in relation to theories of occupational closure. These suggest that claims to distinct knowledge and ownership of the process of care may be undermined by the reproduction of hierarchical models of work organisation. The data suggest that the nurses' ambivalence, recognised by managers, seems to limit their effectiveness in resisting fordist practices of routinisation and deskilling. It also impacts upon health care assistants, who seem to be excluded from nursing's occupational project and whose contribution to care may, as a consequence, be devalued

Ambivalence · Care work · Closure (psychology) · Deskilling · Health care · Perception · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Policies and Family · Social Psychology