TY - JOUR
T1 - Nurse Middle Managers’ Dispositions of Habitus
T2 - A Bourdieusian Analysis of Supporting Role Behaviors in Dutch and American Hospitals
AU - Lalleman, P.C.B.
AU - Smid, Gerhard
AU - Lagerwey, M.D.
AU - Oldenhof, L.
AU - Schuurmans, M.J.
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - A Magnet-related program has been recently adopted in the Netherlands. Support for staff nurses from nurse middle managers (NMMs) is a key component of such a program. A Bourdieusian ethnographic organizational case study in 4 hospitals in the Netherlands and the United States (Magnet, Magnet-related, and non-Magnet) was conducted to explore NMMs' supporting role behavior. Bourdieus concepts of habitus, field, and capital guided the analysis. Eight dispositions constitute NMMs habitus. A caring, clinical, and scientific disposition enhances NMMs' capital in particular organizations-as-fields. Further research is necessary to link Magnet (-related) program characteristics to various configurations of dispositions of NMMs habitus.
AB - A Magnet-related program has been recently adopted in the Netherlands. Support for staff nurses from nurse middle managers (NMMs) is a key component of such a program. A Bourdieusian ethnographic organizational case study in 4 hospitals in the Netherlands and the United States (Magnet, Magnet-related, and non-Magnet) was conducted to explore NMMs' supporting role behavior. Bourdieus concepts of habitus, field, and capital guided the analysis. Eight dispositions constitute NMMs habitus. A caring, clinical, and scientific disposition enhances NMMs' capital in particular organizations-as-fields. Further research is necessary to link Magnet (-related) program characteristics to various configurations of dispositions of NMMs habitus.
U2 - 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000083
DO - 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000083
M3 - Article
SN - 0161-9268
VL - 38
SP - E1-E16
JO - Advances in Nursing Science
JF - Advances in Nursing Science
IS - 3
ER -