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Michael Traynor

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PubMed2004

Context, convergence and contingency: political leadership for nursing.

AIM: This paper attempts to illuminate some of the factors necessary to influence policy, using recent changes in the UK research policy as a case study. BACKGROUND: Changes in the UK research policy have shown how the profession can successfully influence a government agenda. METHODS: The paper critically reviews recent UK research policy with relevance for nursing. RESULTS: Successful policy change in nursing requires a contingent alignment of professional and governmental agendas. CONCLUSIONS: Although nursing research has made significant gains over the last 10 years, there is need for the continued development of politically minded research leadership, lest these gains be lost.

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PubMed2002

The oil crisis, risk and evidence-based practice.

Evidence-based practice has risen to prominence over the last 20 years. Different professions have taken it up in different ways and for different purposes. It has been seen as holding both threats and advantages to professionalising endeavours and professional identity. It has engendered controversy but some criticisms of it have been unconvincing. It is possible to account for its rise as a response to tightening financial constraints on state spending in the west, as a sign of a culture increasingly concerned with risk, distrust of professionals and experts, as well as a way for professionals themselves to maintain control over their activity in the face of growing managerialism. This paper reviews the literature of some of the movement's proponents as well as criticism from various professional groups. It concludes that more useful than either arguing for or against it, is to understand the policy background and sociological reasons for its emergence and spread.

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Cash backing.

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Education, Nursing↗
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Between the lines.

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