Telephone advisory services - nursing between organisational and occupational professionalism
Fältholm, Ylva ; Jansson, Anna
New Technology, Work and Employment
2008
23
1-2
March - July
17-29
call centre ; nurse ; work organization
Service sector
English
Bibliogr.
"In this paper, we explore how telephone advisory services (TAS) and the implementation of new technology affect nurses and the nursing profession. This study shows that TAS and applied technology embodies ideas of standardisation and efficiency, and promotes an organisational professionalism such that it challenges occupational professionalism. Torn between organisational and occupational professionalism, the nurses develop strategies to deal with their contradictory demands."
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