Nursing leadership, missing questions and the elephant(s) in the room : problematizing the discourse on nursing leadership

John Cutcliffe, Michelle Cleary

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    Abstract

    To expose inconsistencies and contradictions in the nurse leadership literature (“text”), this article adopts a deconstructive approach and draws upon the work of Derrida in examining the text or discourse. What is almost entirely missing in the literature are articles that ask difficult, searching questions that challenge some of the taken-for-granted truths or maxims about nursing leadership. The current examination of the literature, described in this article, shows: (a) a lack of convergence of the literature and health care/nursing organizations concerning leadership, (b) a conflation of nursing leadership with managerial or administrative positions, and (c) a possible lack of understanding about the complexity of nursing leadership coupled with an unwillingness to raise these issues.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)817-825
    Number of pages9
    JournalIssues in Mental Health Nursing
    Volume36
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • contradiction
    • leadership
    • medical care
    • nursing

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