Public health nurse perceptions of evolving work and how work is managed: A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore public health nurse (PHN) perspectives of their evolving work and how public health nurse work is managed in a Canadian health region.

Background: Professional and public health organisations describe public health nurse practice roles as population-focused work. Health care management directs public health nurse work to achieve specific goals.

Textually mediated discourses in Canadian news stories: Situating nurses' salaries as the problem.

The aim of this article is to elucidate how nurses are positioned in Canadian news stories regarding their salaries. While the image of nursing in mass media has been widely studied, few studies explore how nurses are constructed in news stories. Drawing on ideas from institutional ethnography together with discourse analysis, this discussion highlights public textual discourses about nurses' salaries in Canadian news stories.

Health Care Providers' Spirit at Work Within a Restructured Workplace.

Spirit at work (SAW) research emerged as a response to care provider determination to maintain a healthy and productive health care work environment, despite restructuring. The aim of this descriptive mixed-methods research is to present the care provider's perceptions of SAW. SAW is a holistic measure of care provider workplace outcomes, defined as the unique experience of individuals who are passionate about and energized by their work.

Another link to improving the working environment in acute care hospitals: registered nurses' spirit at work.

Hospitals are situated within historical and socio-political contexts; these influence the provision of patient care and the work of registered nurses (RNs). Since the early 1990s, restructuring and the increasing pressure to save money and improve efficiency have plagued acute care hospitals. These changes have affected both the work environment and the work of nurses.

Taken for granted: normalizing nurses' work in hospitals.

The aim of this article is to add to the research surrounding nurses' work in hospitals. Throughout history, nurses have faced adverse working conditions, an aspect of their work that remains remarkably unchanged today. Prevailing historical ideologies and sociopolitical conditions influences the context of nurses' work in contemporary hospitals.