Abstract
In the struggle to achieve professional status and develop a body of knowledge, nursing has embraced a number of 'sciences' and 'disciplines'. These have included sociology and feminist perspectives. This paper explores the difficulties of drawing on these disciplines independently of everyday nursing practice. Using a case study approach, we illustrate the way in which some nurses draw on sociological and feminist 'definitions of the situation' in the 'doctor-nurse game', while others draw directly on nursing practice. The nursing practice in this case is concerned with pain management. We conclude that 'shared care' requires a collaboration with medicine that draws on nursing practice to demonstrate an integrated nursing knowledge in a way that acknowledges, challenges and asserts issues of power and status.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 136-144 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Contemporary nurse : a journal for the Australian nursing profession |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1997 |