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- The paper utilizes postmodern theories to explore literature on nurses and medication administration.
- It highlights how the representation of this nursing activity reflects and shapes the perception of the nurse's role in healthcare.
- The analysis suggests that procedures created by nurses can lead to the simplification of nursing tasks into rituals, impacting the professional identity of nurses.
Article Abstract
This paper draws on postmodern thought to interrogate the literature relating to nurses and medications. An examination of the representation of a specific nursing activity in the literature-the administration of medications-reveals much about the way in which the role of the nurse is discursively constructed. This is particularly evident from an analysis of the procedures shaping that role. These procedures, which nurses themselves develop and institute as rules to guide nursing practice, can have the effect of reducing nursing work to a series of rituals which contribute to the discursive construction of the nurse's role in medication administration.
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