Nursing Care Plans Are a Snare and a Delusion

Palisin, Helen

doi:10.1097/00000446-197101000-00020

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“…The directing discourse of medicine still permits a limited autonomy to the directed discourse of nursing so long as this poses no threat to itself. Doctors remain in charge of 'their' beds and, having admitted a patient, they decide and control the treatment, and discharge the patient when he is recovered or the bed is needed for a more urgent case (Palisin 1971). The doctor does not need to take into account what the nurses are trying to achieve with that patient before considering him fit for discharge: his own decision is the only one that really counts.…”

Section: Effects Of the Change On Existing Power Structuresmentioning

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Classification and framing: a sociological analysis of task‐centred nursing and the nursing process

Webb¹

1981

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Sections of the British nursing profession have recently become interested in the nursing process as a means of providing better patient care and increased job satisfaction for nurses. Bernstein's code theory is used in this article to analyse theoretically the change from a task-oriented to a patient-oriented mode of organization of nursing care, and to suggest hypotheses regarding the possible effects of the change. The new mode is analysed as a different and more pervasive form of social control of patients and nurses, and, although it appears to be a radical initiative, the fundamental power structure within which nursing care is given is shown to be unchanged. Whether patients will be more satisfied with their care and nurses will experience less stress in the new mode cannot be taken for granted; they are matters which call for empirical investigation.

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Section: Effects Of the Change On Existing Power Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%