The Nursing Process as a Strategy for a (De-)Professionalization in Nursing: A Critical Analysis of the Transformation of Nursing in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

The nursing process generally is understood as key element of professional nursing care in Germany. In study follows this argument back to the introduction of the nursing process in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, the German healthcare system underwent dramatic changes and economic reorganization, which can be understood as the emergence of the neoliberal rationale in Germany. The argument of cost explosion was used to restructure hospitals into enterprises that were to operate based on ...