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The angels and heroes of health care: Justified and appropriate, or harmful and destructive?
Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol.17(10), pp.847-849
07/10/2022
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Abstract
Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to impact health care, particularly the health-care workforce. Arguably, the spotlight for the burden of the pandemic has been chiefly on nurses. This is most likely because of their highly visible clinical role. It may also be influenced by the historical connotations of servitude, self-sacrifice, and associations with the religious origins of nursing. Terms such as heroes and angels have been used to describe the efforts of nurses during the pandemic, both in mainstream media and in organizational recruitment campaigns. The impact of this narrative on nurses' professional role, identity, and working conditions is not yet known. However, critical care nurses appear to have rejected this narrative.
Details
- Title
- The angels and heroes of health care: Justified and appropriate, or harmful and destructive?
- Creators
- Jessica Stokes-Parish - Bond UniversityDeb Massey - Southern Cross UniversityKaye Rolls - University of WollongongRosalind Elliott - Royal North Shore Hospital
- Publication Details
- Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol.17(10), pp.847-849
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Grant note
- Article funding: Open access publishing facilitated by Bond University, as part of the Wiley - Bond University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
- Identifiers
- 991013052412802368
- Copyright
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Hospital Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society of Hospital Medicine.
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article