...Teresa Carvalho; Rui Santiago Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the way gender may be used as an instrument to avoid New Public Management (NPM) potential processes of deprofessionalisation in nursing. Design/methodology/approach In total, 83 nurses with managerial duties were...

.... Design/methodology/approach The research design positions workforce change within a wider social and cultural context by highlighting occupational, educational and unionist orders from the viewpoint of Finnish practical nurses. Findings A weakening anchorage in the welfare state...

...Ellen Kuhlmann; Ivy Lynn Bourgeault; Anémone Kober‐Smith; Isabelle Feroni Purpose Taking into account strong intra‐European discrepancies between workforce models for women, such as part‐time work rates and the ability to have uninterrupted careers, this article aims to show how nursing careers...

...Stephanie Jimenez‐Cook; Brian H. Kleiner Efforts to recruit and train ethnic minorities for the nursing profession have been slow. The barriers to diversity in nursing education can be grouped into three categories: negative perceptions of nursing as a career, use of traditional recruitment...