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What do you do at work? Profession building and doing nursing.

D Allen1

  • 1Director of Research, Nursing, Health and Social Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. allend@cf.ac.uk

International Nursing Review
|February 20, 2007
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Nursing work goes beyond individual care, focusing on healthcare system efficiency. This research identifies key activities, offering a foundation for understanding the reality of nursing practice.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing Science
  • Healthcare Management
  • Sociology of Professions

Background:

  • The prevailing perception of nursing emphasizes individualized, emotionally intimate care.
  • There is a recognized lack of empirical evidence supporting nursing's claimed functions.
  • This disconnect highlights a need to examine the actual practice of nursing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review observational studies on nursing work over a ten-year period.
  • To establish a baseline understanding of the real content of nursing activities.
  • To bridge the gap between professional identity and service delivery.

Main Methods:

  • An interpretative review of published field studies on nursing work.
  • Focus on studies conducted in the English language between 1993 and 2003.

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  • Synthesis of findings to identify recurring patterns in nursing activities.

    • Main Results:

    • Identified eight distinct 'bundles of activity' characterizing nursing work.
    • Nursing practice is oriented towards the effective functioning of healthcare systems.
    • Findings challenge the notion that nursing exclusively centers on individual patient care.

    Conclusions:

    • The identified activities provide a basis for a research-driven understanding of nursing.
    • This research can inform a more accurate alignment of professional nursing identities with actual work realities.
    • Encourages a shift towards evidence-based professional self-perception in nursing.