Nursing, Knowledge and Practice

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davina Allen
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Nurse Education ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship

Recent commentators have suggested that academic knowledge is irrelevant to nursing practice and may actually undermine nursing's traditional caring ethos. Furthermore, by making nursing more academic, it is claimed that ‘natural’ but non-academic carers are prevented from pursuing a career in nursing. Debates about the relationship between nursing, knowledge and practice have a long history and have to be understood in terms of wider political and economic issues relating to nursing, its status within society and the changing role of nurses within the health services division of labour. One crucial issue is nursing's status as women's work. Critics of developments in nurse education draw an ideological equation between nursing work and the traditional female role. From this perspective the qualities that make a good nurse cannot be taught, rather they are founded on ‘natural’ feminine skills. Irrespective of whether caring is ‘natural’ or not, it is questionable as to whether, for today's nurses, being caring is sufficient. The shape of nursing jurisdiction is a long way removed from its origins in the Victorian middle-class household. In addition to their traditional caring role, contemporary nurses may also have complex clinical, management and research responsibilities, as well as being crucial co-ordinators of service provision. It is suggested that these and future developments in health services make the need for an educated nursing workforce even more pressing. In order to adequately prepare nurses for practice, however, it is vital that nurse education reflects the reality of service provision.

ARCHITECTURE AND POWER: CHURCHES IN NORTHERN ITALY FROM THE 4TH TO THE 6TH C.

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-309
Author(s):  
Gisella Cantino Wataghin
Keyword(s):  
Northern Italy ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Hierarchical Complexity ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This paper considers the relationship between the development of monumental churches and the rise of Christian communities and episcopal power. Using a number of examples attested by archaeological and documentary evidence it examines how the increasing complexity of Christian architecture, decoration and liturgical arrangement reflects the growing power of the bishop and the developing hierarchical complexity of Christian communities. In conclusion it examines the changing role of Christian monumental architecture as a vehicle for articulating the changing power structures of the Church between the 4th and 6th c.

scholarly journals Staff Use of E-Learning and Graduate Competencies for the Knowledge Economy: A Study of the Misalignment between Rhetoric and Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicos Souleles
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship

E-learning is part of the wider debate on the changing role of higher education (HE). It is associated with the agenda on graduate employability and competencies for the knowledge economy (KE). Policy documents make explicit that participation in the KE is congruent with the acquisition of meta-skills. The role of HE is to provide for these competencies and e-learning is presented as assisting this objective. A primary prerequisite, however, is appropriate staff development. This qualitative study examines the relationship between the rhetoric and the practice of e-learning, and argues that issues associated with professional development exist at both institute and staff levels.

scholarly journals Professionalization without Autonomy: The Italian Case of Building the Nursing Profession

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. e1900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Sena
Keyword(s):  
Health Professions ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Medical Dominance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Main Factor

The nursing professionalization is still a work in progress, especially because forms of medical dominance and conflicts with other health professions often undermine its professional autonomy. This article contributes to the understanding of the relationship between professionalization and autonomy building in the health professions by presenting the case of Italian nursing, where medical dominance, supported by the legal system, is the main factor preventing nursing from achieving professional autonomy. The work aims particularly to understand how professionalization and professional autonomy can follow two parallel and sometimes opposite paths toward building the nursing profession, and the role of academic knowledge and specialized roles to legitimize and strengthen professional autonomy. The analysis draws on the literature addressing professionalization, professional autonomy, and medical dominance, as well as various sources on Italian nursing. They include national legislation, research literature, and national sociological surveys on Italian nurses.

scholarly journals The Changing Role of the Service Sector in an Innovation-Oriented Economy

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Gryczka
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
General Level ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation Processes

Abstract The development of a service economy and the more and more noticeable phenomenon of servicization have become inseparable elements in the evolution of the modern economy. The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of servicization on selected economies, both in terms of GDP and employment structure, as well as on changes in foreign trade. The secondary, but still important aim is to examine the relationship between servicization and innovation processes. Based on the conducted research, it can be stated that the process of servicization occurs in both developed post-industrial economies and increasingly often in developing countries. Moreover, the analysis of the relationship between the general level of innovation in the economy and the degree of its servicization, showed that in many countries higher innovation is often associated with a stronger role of the service sector in the economy. The dynamics of structural change taking place in the “deagrarianization-deindustrialization-servicization” chain is therefore substantially influenced by technological progress.

"No insignificant creature": Thomas Hardy's Ethical Turn

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisha Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Elisha Cohn, "'No insignificant creature': Thomas Hardy's Ethical Turn" (pp. 494––520) This essay examines the limitations of ethically motivated representations of animals in Victorian realism. As many critics have argued, evolutionary theory's challenge to human supremacy had the potential to alter radically literature's focus on individual subjectivity and social ideals. In particular, the new relevance of animals to human life threatened to deflate the human moral ideals. The treatment of animals in Victorian literature is rarely interpreted as exploring evolution's radically anti-humanist implications. More often, animals are thought to function as objects of sympathy in a larger project of constructing middle-class subjectivity. As i argue, it is important to account for the relationship between the sympathetic and the anti-humanist representation of animals in Victorian works. The changing role of animals in Thomas Hardy's works highlights the disconnect between the radical implications that critics see in evolutionist thought and the way in which animals in Victorian writings are usually construed as objects of sympathy. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) places these two approaches in conversation by shifting emphasis from a destabilizing lyricism associated with human-animal affinity to a more distanced narrative stance associated with human autonomy, sympathy, responsibility, and critique. Examining how Hardy grounds his ethically motivated expectations of stable human agency after having seemingly dispensed with them suggests the need for a distinction between a lyrical, evolutionist aesthetic and an ethical aesthetic. This approach also offers insight into the enabling conditions——and limitations——shaping sympathetic agency in defense of animal lives. In examining the intersections between Hardy's work and recent approaches to theories of animality, particularly those based on Gilles Deleuze's concept of becoming-animal, Tess helps us to rethink the theory, to understand why ethical claims require boundaries between species, and on what basis these boundaries can be legitimated.

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