Advancing the status of nursing: reconstructing professional nursing identity through patient safety work.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent decades have seen increased attention to patient safety in health care. This is often in the form of programmes aiming to change professional behaviours. Health professionals in hospitals have traditionally resented such initiatives because patient safety programmes often take a managerialist form that may be interpreted as a challenge to professional identity. Research, however, has mostly paid attention to the role of physicians. This study aims to highlight how such programmes may affect professional nursing identity.

Methods

We qualitatively investigated the implementation of a patient safety programme in Norway, paying attention to changes in nurses' practices and values. Based on purposive sampling, two group interviews, four individual interviews and

SUBMITTER: Heldal F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6591911 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature