Hospitals and the Nursing Profession

Lessons from franco-japanese Comparisons - Paths to Modernization

Philippe Mossé, Tetsu Harayama

176 pages, parution le 10/02/2011

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Hospital systems throughout the developed world are undergoing waves of reform which seek to address multiple challenges of intensifying acuity, such as population ageing, technological advance, heightened expectations on the part of increasingly informed patients, the reduction of public spending deficits and the specialization of staff, especially nurses, as well as the difficulty in establishing appropriate incentives for change and improved performance. Within such a context, the purpose of this book is to analyze the interaction between the nursing professions and hospital institutions in France and Japan, taking as its starting point the conviction that comparative analysis of empirical reality in each of these countries will provide new insights into the transformations currently taking place.

To that end, the material in this study has been contributed by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts, combining economic, sociological, political and historical perspectives, which are brought to bear upon evidence from original research carried out in both countries. The findings reveal that the relationship between the nursing profession and hospital structures in Japan is characterised by the predominance of a domestic logic, rooted in dependence upon the institution and the promotion of supposedly "feminine" qualities, in sharp contrast with the French situation, where industrial and professional logics prevail, entailing specialization, independent initiative and increasing workloads.

From this perspective, the future development of the nursing profession in Japan is inextricably linked to the forms taken by the process of women's emancipation, whereas in France, it is the evolution of hospital structures, of the position of nurses in the healthcare system and of the division of labour within the world of medicine which emerge as the determining factors. In order to highlight French and Japanese particularities for the Anglophone reader, the book also features numerous socio-historical points of comparison with developments in the United Kingdom.

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Introduction: Aview from the bridge
The nursing profession: from its emergence to the present-day picture
- The path to professionalization
- Gender issues addressed
The social worlds of French and Japanese nurses
- French Nurses' Social World: Setting up a fuzzily defined social group
- Japanese Nurses' Social World: Segmentation between those Integrated into the Organization and the Others
Paths to modernization
- Regulating hospitals and developing occupational competences
- What projects for what teams?
- General Conclusion

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	John Libbey
Auteur(s)	Philippe Mossé, Tetsu Harayama
Parution	10/02/2011
Nb. de pages	176
Format	18 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	530g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9782742007967
ISBN13	978-2-7420-0796-7