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  • 1Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. trudy.rudge@sydney.edu.au

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Healthcare management systems, despite aiming for smooth service delivery, often perpetuate structural violence and coercion on staff and clients. This paper argues that clinical audits, intended to create order, mask power dynamics and lead to nurse alienation.

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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Sociology of Health
  • Critical Theory

Background:

  • Healthcare systems strive for efficient service delivery through management processes.
  • Managerialism in healthcare can lead to structural violence and coercion affecting both clients and workers.
  • The pursuit of order through mechanisms like clinical audits can obscure underlying power relations and systemic issues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically analyze the inherent violence and coercion within healthcare management structures.
  • To examine how managerialist control and audit cultures contribute to the alienation and subjectification of healthcare workers, particularly nurses.
  • To propose alternative approaches for nursing practice and research that challenge existing power dynamics and audit cultures.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis drawing on Žižek's concepts of violence.
  • Critical examination of healthcare management processes and audit cultures.
  • Exploration of power relations and their impact on healthcare workers.

Main Results:

  • Managerialist approaches and clinical audits, intended to ensure order, paradoxically perpetuate structural violence and coercion.
  • These systems divert focus from core healthcare work and mask power imbalances.
  • Nurses' engagement within these systems leads to alienation and subjectification, hindering genuine care.

Conclusions:

  • Efforts to correct healthcare systems through current managerialist and audit-driven approaches are fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail.
  • Overcoming the violence embedded in audit cultures requires interrupting current practices.
  • Promoting radical positions for nursing practice and clinically based research is essential to redefine nurses' roles within healthcare management structures.