Individual and collective strategies in nurses' struggle for professional identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3609832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naike Bochatay (0000-0002-6098-4262, University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-278 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14461242.2018.1469096 |
| OpenAlex | W2803175739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 56 |
Individuals’ perception of their work as meaningful contributes to their sense of identity. While individual processes of identity development through work have been studied extensively, we know little about how social processes may contribute to this development. This article seeks to better understand social processes of professional identity development through work by examining nurses’ reactions to changes in their end of shift reports. Field observations were conducted with two healthcare teams on the internal medicine ward of a Swiss teaching hospital. During the observation period, organisational changes in end of shift reports, a crucial time in nurses’ shift, were introduced to the teams and then implemented. Before the changes, nurses used individual and collective strategies to make their work meaningful and to affirm their professional identity. Individually, nurses sought recognition from their co-workers during end of shift reports. Collectively, nurses resorted to professional values and discourses that set them apart from other professional groups. However, changes in shift reports threatened these strategies. This article shows how nurses make their work meaningful in the eyes of others and how others’ recognition contributes to nurses’ sense of professional identity
Aesthetics · Collective identity · Epistemology · Health care · Paradigm shift · Pedagogy · Perception · Political science · Politics · Professional development · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Nursing education and management · Psychology · Social Psychology
Ethnography
Ethnography in qualitative educational research
Identity Work and Organizational Identification
Identity, identification and medical education
On the meaning of work
Modernity and self-identity
L'idéal au travail
Shedding the cobra effect
Reported Speech in Conversational Storytelling During Nursing Shift Handover Meetings
Hospital Workload and Adverse Events
Risk society
Contribution individuelle à la sécurité du collectif
An ethnographic study of classifying and accounting for risk at the sharp end of medical wards
Health care practices, professions and perspectives
Re-conceptualising holism in the contemporary nursing mandate
The care/cure dichotomy
Interprofessional Practice and Professional Identity Threat
The Politics of Life Itself
The Anthropology of Food and Eating
Lost in translation? 'Evidence' and the articulation of institutional logics in integrated care pathways
Risk, governance and the experience of care
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |