title: Resilience as resistance to the new managerialism: portraits that reframe nursing through quotes from the field.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper acknowledges the relationship between resilience and the new managerialism of contemporary nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative portraiture methodology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The new managerialism in hospital settings results in a rapidly increasing turnover of acutely ill or comorbid patients, which directly relates to retention and quality service. In education settings, the management imperative to recruit more students into the profession combined with financial cutbacks leads to similar tensions. In aged care the trend equates care directly with funding, with the same effect. Yet despite this, many registered nurses remain working. Portraiture explored 'why' nurses remain in workplaces often described as awful. The resilience of nurses is seen through their stories and reframed to highlight resilience as a form of resistance to the new managerialism inherent in contemporary healthcare.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This paper describes some of the hallmarks of new managerialism where workforce pressures force practices that do not value the 'human resource'.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The quotes from the field give insight into the nurse's world view and have implications for managers, educators and employers, as well as for consumers of nursing care.
authors: Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
authors: Vicki
authors: V
authors: Cope
authors: Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
authors: Bronwyn
authors: B
authors: Jones
authors: Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
authors: Joyce
authors: J
authors: Hendricks
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000592:standards; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: new managerialism; nursing work; portraiture; resilience; resistance; retention