The curse of bureaucratisation or the blessings of professionalisation? Nurses’ engaged adoption of quality management in hybrid managerial positions |
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Authors: | Jette Ernst |
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Institution: | University of Southern Denmark, Department of Design and Communication, Universitetsparken 1, 6000 Kolding, Denmark |
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Abstract: | The paper concerns how new quality management in the Danish hospital sector has created new career and professionalisation opportunities for nurses. While the well-known dualism between the logics of professionalism and managerialism is challenged in the literature, not much is known about how engagement in the tighter steering of practice may converge with professional identities and meaningfulness in work. The paper applies a Bourdieusian and ethnographic approach to the examination of nurses’ enthusiastic involvement in quality management as they take up hybrid managerial positions in an acute care department. The findings demonstrate the importance of the material and symbolic value of scientific-bureaucratic knowledge in legitimizing quality management, achieving meaningfulness in practice and bolstering the professional role of nurses. |
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Keywords: | Hospital care Hybrid management Nursing Meaningfulness in work Professionalisation Quality management Symbolic capital |
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