Biomedical subjects
Suzanne Gordon
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[Simple to explain and to understand].
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Nurses and public communication: protecting definitional claims.
This article discusses why nursing work is so little understood by the public. It looks into how nurses contribute to their poor public image and how nurse managers may exacerbate the problems. It also considers what nurses can do to help solve these problems.
Coast to coast. Media friendly.
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Collective thinking.
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Thinking like a nurse: you have to be a nurse to do it.
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Saving the practice--top 10 unfinished issues to inform the nursing debate in the new millennium.
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The rhetoric of rupture: nursing as a practice with a history?
In this paper we argue that nursing is consistently presented as a practice without a history, constantly reinventing itself within new professional and technical realms. This rupture with and repudiation of a past deemed to be pejorative, coupled with a rebirth in a "preferred present," raises recurrent problems in the construction of nursing's contemporary professional identity and search for social legitimacy. Furthermore, constituting new nursing knowledge and practice as discontinuous with the past produces a sense of historical dislocation of that nursing knowledge and practice that, in turn, reproduces the need for relocation through reinvention. This phenomenon, which we term the "rhetoric of rupture," in our view, arises from nursing's frustrated attempts to gain social status and legitimacy. Paradoxically, this constant reinvention in fact hampers nurses' attempts to gain that status and legitimacy.