Work as an Immersive Practice

Patricia Benner and Hubert Dreyfus

Chapter Chapter 4 in Unmanaging, 2008, pp 73-91 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Nursing, I believe, has an especially substantial claim for attention. To begin with, nursing practice is concerned with some of the most significant events in people’s lives. On the other hand, nurses and nursing practice “emerge” and become salient for most of us only at extraordinary times, and otherwise are generally self-effacing and largely invisible. The paradox of the salience of nursing and its hidden character is by no means accidental, as we will see later. But my point here is that although nursing has been largely unobserved and un-remarked upon in management discourse, it has in fact a great deal to offer to the wider world of management and organization.

Keywords: Nursing Practice; Narrative Account; Habitual Body; Narrative Practice; Extreme Individualism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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