Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Enlightenment, rationality and colonisation; Sawing off the branch and sitting: the context of the postmodern; Erasing the boundaries: speech into text, comment into text; Locating nursing within the discourses of the Enlightenment; The origins of the texts: management interviews and nursing questionnaires; The interviews part I: discourses of rationality; The interviews part II: subjects and objects, autonomy and tradition; Morality and self-sacrifice: the nurses' comments; Beyond oppression and profession
Summary
Managerialism and Nursing examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses, their morale and the profession as a whole. Using an innovative study of nurses conducted by the Royal College of Nursing, Michael Traynor analyses the relationship between nurses and their managers, looking at the contrasting ways in which each group argues its case and presents its identity
Notes
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index
