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Dusting off the looking-glass: A historical analysis of the development of a nursing identity in Chile.
- Source :
- Nursing Inquiry; Jul2017, Vol. 24 Issue 3, pn/a-N.PAG, 10p, 2 Black and White Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Histories of nursing that disregard their linkage to broader historical movements often lead to historically detached versions of nursing identity that omit the perspective of their sources and the ideas of their time. Drawing on materials retrieved through a multilayered research strategy comprising internal and external sources, this article examines the development of a nursing identity in Chile during the period starting in the 1950s through the early 2000s. We analysed the sociopolitical contexts in which the nursing profession grew, the changing direction of its role and how the nursing identity transformed itself. Through the use of historical sources and oral testimonies, we aim to give a nuanced account of how the history of public health and that of the country more broadly changed the object of identification of nurses, creating only relatively recently a sense of nursing community. Processes of identification, fragmentation and integration are highlighted, which challenge usual notions of history as a linear process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- NURSING career counseling
DATABASES
HEALTH care reform
HISTORICAL research
MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
NATIONAL health services
NURSES
HISTORY of nursing
NURSING education
OCCUPATIONAL prestige
ORAL history
PRACTICAL politics
STATISTICAL sampling
SERIAL publications
SOCIAL change
LABOR unions
PUBLIC sector
OCCUPATIONAL roles
PROFESSIONAL identity
PROFESSIONALISM
NURSES' associations
HISTORY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13207881
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nursing Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 124060931
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12185