Nursing research journals: A discussion and annotated guide

Murphy, Sharon C.

doi:10.1016/0098-7913(93)90005-u

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“…We identified representative textbooks using Brandon's Selected List for the Small Medical Library and Brandon's and Hill's Selected List of Nursing Books and Journals. These lists are considered to be the standard selection guides for USA libraries newly involved in the acquisition of nursing literature (Murphy, 1993). Widely accepted by the nursing community, the books selected present contemporary concepts, theories, and trends in nursing based on the input of nurses, librarians, and publishers (Brandon and Hill, 1992).…”

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Florence Nightingale Endures: Legitimizing a New Professional Role Identity

Goodrick

Reay

2009

J Management Studies

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We examined the discursive processes through which a new professional role identity for registered nurses was legitimized by analysing introductory textbooks over time. We theorize five ways of rhetorically legitimizing a new professional role identity: naturalizing the past, normalizing new meanings, altering identity referents, connecting with the institutional environment, and referencing authority. In contrast to previous research focused on legitimizing new practices, we contribute to the institutional literature by showing that legitimizing a professional role identity requires the incremental development of new arguments where the past is not delegitimized. Our findings also indicate that instead of a progression from moral and pragmatic legitimacy to cognitive legitimacy, legitimizing a new role identity may focus only on moral legitimacy. Finally, our study highlights the importance of interactions between the professional task environment and the wider institutional environment as part of the process of legitimizing a professional role identity. Copyright (c) 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.

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Section: Methods and Studymentioning

confidence: 99%