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dc.contributor.authorGrealish, Laurie
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-21T01:32:46Z
dc.date.available2017-09-21T01:32:46Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2014-04-03T03:57:38Z
dc.identifier.issn0813-0531
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/57793
dc.description.abstractObjective: The aim of this study was to explore how competency standards came to be the preferred technology for classifying and nursing performance in Australia at the end of the 20th century. Design: A genealogical approach to the history of the development of the Australian Nurse Regulatory Authorities Conference (ANRAC) Competencies (1990) is adopted. Setting: The setting is Australia during the period of 1975 to 1990. Subjects: Data was collected from minutes of ANRAC meetings, including ANRAC Competencies Committee meetings, government reports, a review of the literature on nurse assessment and competence, and interviews with five nurse leaders involved with the competencies development or regulation during this period. Main outcome measure: Description of how competency standards came to be the preferred technology for classifying nursing performance in Australia. Results: The emergence of a national competency standards technology is closely associated with the transfer of nursing education into the higher education sector, an expected shortage of skilled nurses, and microeconomic reform intended to position Australia as a world leader in a global economy. Through skilled rhetoric, nurse leaders established the need for national competency standards to address the issues confronting diverse social worlds while advancing the professional status of nursing through competency standards design. Conclusion: The national nursing competency standards is a technology that addressed the confluent concerns of those interested in the social worlds of nursing education, nursing research, occupational regulation, professional guilds, and national economic productivity thereby privileging it among instruments to classify nurse performance.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian Nursing Federation
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.ajan.com.au/ajan_30.2.html
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom20
dc.relation.ispartofpageto31
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Advanced Nursing
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4205
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode420599
dc.titleHow competency standards became the preferred national technology for classifying nursing performance in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2012
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gro.griffith.authorGrealish, Laurie A.


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