title: Technology, deskilling, and nurses: the impact of the technologically changing environment.
abstract: This study examines the impact of three waves of technological change that swept nursing from 1950 to 1990. It suggests that the response to these changes was rooted in a positivistic stance toward skills as knowledge and a reiteration of culturally held views of natural feminine skills. It further argues that such a stance was inadequate to forestall deskilling and that a sociohistorical understanding of the cultural construction of both skill and gender provides a broader understanding of the impact of technological change.
authors.affiliation: Home Health Department, Mary Lane Hospital, Ware, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Rinard
mesh_terms: D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009729:Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D013672:Technology / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends*; D014933:Women's Rights; D017132:Workplace