Nurse education in the post-Fordist era

This paper aims to place the current changes impacting on nurse education into the wider context of massive organisational and managerial upheaval, at present affecting the entire welfare state. This innovation and structural change is, however, merely an echo of deeper societal processes and the influence of the technological revolution on the private industrial sector and market economy. Within this frame of reference the implications of current reforms for the future organisational form, and management, of colleges of nursing are considered. Concerns are also expressed as to the tenuous control of the professional curriculum.