Nursing a grievance
Women doctors and nurses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary Pringle (Griffith University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-168 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.1996.9960639 |
| OpenAlex | W2114603267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
The literature on doctor‐nurse relations still mostly presumes that the doctor is male and the nurse female. While there has been some interest in male nurses, especially gay ones, very little has been said about the relationship between nurses and women doctors. This paper draws on life history interviews with women doctors, and focus groups of nurses to explore the relationship. Nurses of both sexes were more positive about women doctors than vice versa but the two versions mesh: nurses prefer working with women doctors because the latter are less demanding and have a more consultative style; the doctors, however, resent what they see as the compromises they have to make. Some of the tensions between female doctors and, in particular, female nurses, derive from the deliberate construction of ‘modem’ medical and nursing identities as normatively masculine and feminine and the impossibility for women doctors of playing the ‘doctor‐nurse game’. Woman doctors were expected be a blend of nurse and doctor and hence faced problems differentiating themselves from nurses; currently nurses are facing similar expectations and are disturbed to find themselves portrayed as failed doctors. Both groups have constituted themselves in relation to shifting meanings of gender and class which are linked in complex and subtle ways. While there are tensions, there are also indications that a high proportion of the women doctors have negotiated, or been forced to negotiate, more egalitarian working relationships with nurses than have their male colleagues
Impossibility · Negotiation · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |