Constructing standards: a study of nurses negotiating with multiple modes of knowledge

• Published in: The journal of workplace learning Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 376 - 393
• Main Authors: Nes, Sturle, Moen, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Group Publishing Limited 01.01.2010; Emerald
• Subjects: Access to Information; Accountability; Best Practices; Communicable Diseases; Construction; Context Effect; Conventional Instruction; Cooperative Learning; Cultural Differences; Epistemology; Evidence Based Practice; Evidence-based nursing; Experience; Expertise; Foreign Countries; Group Membership; Guidelines; Interaction Process Analysis; Knowledge; Knowledge management; National Standards; Negotiating; Negotiations; Norway; Nurses; Nursing; Organizational Change; Professionals; Quality standards; Standardization; Studies; Norway; Knowledge management; Nursing; Negotiating; Standards
• ISSN: 1366-5626; 1758-7859
• DOI: 10.1108/13665621011063487

Purpose - The aim of the paper is to explore how multiple modes of knowledge play out in the consolidation of nursing procedures in construction of "local universality". The paper seeks to explore processes where nurses negotiate universal procedures that are to become local standards in a...