Closure
It is time to see nursing differently.
"There is a widely held view that all systems tend towards disorder and that energy is required to maintain order. Nurses are the source of this energy in healthcare.
Formal organisations have a tendency to overestimate their orderliness and the degree to which their activities are governed by rational systems and processes.
Yet in so far as healthcare exhibits any order, the findings of this study show, this must be understood as a nursing order."
Allen, D. (2015) The Invisible Work of Nurses: Hospitals, Organisation and Healthcare, London: Routledge
So you think you know what nursing looks like?
Think again.
Acknowledgements
The nurses who participated in the study
School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies Cardiff University
The Health Foundation
Heather Strange
Alison Evans
Cardiff University School of Healthcare Sciences Simulation Suite Team
Cardiff University Centre for Trials Research colleagues
Media credits
Florence Nightingale image: Popular lithograph reproduction of a painting of Nightingale by Henrietta Rae, 1891.
Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-29): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zggypp55 CC-BY-4.0
Bird murmuration / migration video: The Art of Flying, Jan van Ijken.
Purchased from http://www.janvanijken.com/film-projects/the-art-of-flying/
Mississippi river image: CC0 Creative Commons, Pixabay.com
https://pixabay.com/en/natchez-mississippi-river-riverboat-1624414/