Hypervisible Nurses: Effects of Circulating Ignorance and Knowledge on Acts of Whistleblowing in Health.
Journal
ANS. Advances in nursing science
ISSN: 1550-5014
Titre abrégé: ANS Adv Nurs Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7809992
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
entrez:
30
4
2020
pubmed:
30
4
2020
medline:
16
7
2021
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ppublish
Résumé
Whistleblowing has been examined from various angles over the past 40 years, but not yet as a matter of epistemology. Whistleblowing can be understood as resulting from the improper transmission of critical knowledge in an organization (eg, knowledge about poor care or wrongdoing). Using the sociology of ignorance, we wish to rethink whistleblowing and the failures it brings to light. This article examines how nurses get caught in the strategic circulation of knowledge and ignorance, which can culminate in acts of whistleblowing. The sociology of ignorance helps understand how whistleblowing is borne out of the complex and strategic circulation of knowledge and ignorance that spells multiple and intersecting epistemic positions for nurses. In particular, various organizational blind spots position nurses as untrustworthy and illegitimate speakers in the "business" of the organization. Organizational failings therefore remain concealed while nurses become hypervisible, both as faulty care providers and as problematic information brokers.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32345800
doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000311
pii: 00012272-202004000-00003
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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