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Shawn M Kneipp1, Mary K Canales, Denise J Drevdahl
1The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing (Dr Kneipp); Department of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Dr Canales); and School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership, University of Washington Tacoma (Dr Drevdahl).
Abstract:
Critical social scholarship highlights the power philanthropic foundations wield on the collective agency of groups, yet analyses specific to nursing are absent in the literature. In this second of a 2-part series, we employed critical discourse analysis to examine how control of enunciative privilege in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) 2010 and 2020-2030 Future of Nursing (FON) initiatives challenge nursing's ability to enact its collective agency, particularly through professional nursing organizations. Findings are discussed within the context of nursing's self-regulatory privileges, history, and agentic obligations that are bestowed on the discipline by the greater public for the public good.
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