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The new making of nurse executive careers: Between regulation and cooptation Volume 36, issue 1, Mars 2018

Author
* Sophie Divay, sociologue, Centre d’études et de recherches sur les emplois et les professionnalisations (CEREP), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 23 rue Clément Ader, 51100 Reims, France

For some decades hospitals have been subject to measures of expenditure control and restriction. Hospital staff are confronted with frequent, often contradictory and painful changes, which lead to an intensification of their workload. In this context, decision-makers must rely on relays capable of making their decisions acceptable and implement them. Because of their proximity to healthcare givers, nurses executive are expected to be efficient. Therefore their training becomes a crucial issue for the expected management of hospitals. In addition to the regulations governing the statutory careers of hospital employees in the public service, organizational and local rules from the private sector are introduced as a contribution to the new public management of public hospitals. These developments participate into the transformation of public hospital into company-hospital.