Nursing Work, Family and Care

Designing a Sustainable Workforce
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-26268-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery

Nurses routinely manage caregiving at home and at work with little structural support. Arguing that nursing will become safe and sustainable only when we design the profession around caregiving realities, this book pairs nurses' narratives with evidence and ready-to-use tools, reframing attrition and burnout as solvable design challenges across education, practice, and policy.

This book presents a thoughtful new analysis of the tensions inherent in the way we currently organize the nursing workforce, where educational pipelines discourage students with dependents, managers struggle to retain postpartum staff and policies remain inconsistent across institutions. It begins by tracing the matrilineal roots of nursing and how colonial, gendered, and managerial logics produced the modern “ideal nurse.” Next, the discussion interprets the lived experience of the transition to motherhood within shift work, precepting, and leadership, illuminating hidden barriers to role enrichment through the challenges of nursing shiftwork and unpaid caregiving roles. Analysis then turns to systems: staffing models, scheduling, lactation and leave, professional standards, and how performance metrics penalize caregiving. The book directs readers to look forward through the viewpoints of caring masculinities, decolonial approaches to care, and an ethics-and-policy toolkit with checklists, sample policies, curricular modules, and measurement ideas leaders can adopt immediately.

Providing a coherent framework for understanding how caregiver-workers are made invisible, this book reveals a vision for system change. It is an essential read for scholars and students interested in nursing, the organization of healthcare, carework, emotional labour, motherhood and work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Adrianna

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Pflegeforschung, Pflegemanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Remember, 1. The Motherline of Nurses, 2. The Making of Modern Nursing, 3. Barred at the Threshold, Part Two: Become, 4. Understanding the Motherhood Penalty and Workforce Sustainability, 5. Matrescence, Nursing, and the Double Transition, 6. Patrescence and the Caregiving Life Course, 7. Decolonizing the Future of the Nursing Workforce, Part Three: Respond,  8. Ethical Considerations for the Nursing Workforce,9. Policymaking for the Caregiving-Inclusive Workforce, 10. Designing a Caregiver-Inclusive Nursing Workforce,  Part Four: Rebuild,11. The Legacy of Nursing and Carework, 12. Handoff on the Nursing Workforce, Appendices,  Appendix A. Manager’s Return-to-Work Toolkit for Nurse-Mothers, Appendix B. Manager’s Return-to-Work Toolkit for Nurse-Fathers, Appendix C. Policy and Resource Toolkit: Measurement and Review, Appendix D. Caregiver-Inclusive Nursing Workforce Design Toolkit

Über Autor(innen)

Adrianna Lorraine Watson is a nurse educator, scientist, and author with 17 years of experience in adult critical and progressive care nursing, including direct patient care and shared leadership roles.