'Nurses are seen as general cargo, not the smart TVs you ship carefully': The politics of nurse staffing in England, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Wallenburg, I., Friebel, R., Winblad, U., Maynou Pujolras, L., & Bal, R. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 18(4):411 – 425, 2023. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Type: Article
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Nurse workforce shortages put healthcare systems under pressure, moving the nursing profession into the core of healthcare policymaking. In this paper, we shift the focus from workforce policy to workforce politics and highlight the political role of nurses in healthcare systems in England, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Using a comparative discursive institutionalist approach, we study how nurses are organised and represented in these four countries. We show how nurse politics plays out at the levels of representation, working conditions, career building, and by breaking with the public healthcare system. Although there are differences between the countries - with nurses in England and Spain under more pressure than in the Netherlands and Sweden - nurses are often not represented in policy discourses; not just because of institutional ignorance but also because of fragmentation of the profession itself. This institutional ignorance and lack of collective representation, we argue, requires attention to foster the role and position of nurses in contemporary healthcare systems. © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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	title = {'{Nurses} are seen as general cargo, not the smart {TVs} you ship carefully': {The} politics of nurse staffing in {England}, {Spain}, {Sweden}, and the {Netherlands}},
	volume = {18},
	issn = {17441331},
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	abstract = {Nurse workforce shortages put healthcare systems under pressure, moving the nursing profession into the core of healthcare policymaking. In this paper, we shift the focus from workforce policy to workforce politics and highlight the political role of nurses in healthcare systems in England, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Using a comparative discursive institutionalist approach, we study how nurses are organised and represented in these four countries. We show how nurse politics plays out at the levels of representation, working conditions, career building, and by breaking with the public healthcare system. Although there are differences between the countries - with nurses in England and Spain under more pressure than in the Netherlands and Sweden - nurses are often not represented in policy discourses; not just because of institutional ignorance but also because of fragmentation of the profession itself. This institutional ignorance and lack of collective representation, we argue, requires attention to foster the role and position of nurses in contemporary healthcare systems. © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.},
	language = {English},
	number = {4},
	journal = {Health Economics, Policy and Law},
	author = {Wallenburg, Iris and Friebel, Rocco and Winblad, Ulrika and Maynou Pujolras, Laia and Bal, Roland},
	year = {2023},
	pmid = {37702051},
	note = {Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Article},
	keywords = {England, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, article, attention, career, controlled study, health care system, human, nurse, nursing staff, occupation, personnel shortage, politics, work environment},
	pages = {411 -- 425},
}

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