Project description
Advancing social justice through nursing and self-care
Nursing is one of the pillars of health services. Nurses provide the constant, day-to-day care that keeps a health system running. However, staffing shortages, which result in burnout, and a lack of resources are several challenges worsening their working conditions. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the NurseCare project explores how nurses navigate workplace adversity and respond to professional injustices. By bridging empirical research with critical theory, the study frames nurses as active agents of social justice and provides new insights into their professional experience. Ultimately, the project’s findings will inform policy interventions designed to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care.
Objective
Contemporary capitalist societies are facing a care crisis that exposes one of their most profound contradictions: although they rely on stable processes of social reproduction, they simultaneously undermine the very conditions that sustain them. Nurses represent a unique yet underexplored entry point for examining the current care crisis. Predominantly women, they embody a historically feminised profession whose labour is essential for sustaining lives of individuals and communities across the lifespan. Today, however, their professional and social status is deeply eroded, reflecting increasingly precarious working conditions that undermine their health, well-being and ability to provide care that is both ethical and socially just. Although they have historically been entrenched in a disempowered and oppressed identity, nurses are now leading an unprecedented wave of mobilisation at personal, organisational, and political levels, advocating not only for their patients but also for themselves. They are engaging in practices of care of the self that represent embodied ways of being and acting by which they are not only demanding better working conditions, but also raising their voices in a global call for the urgent need to re-situate care as the cornerstone of a more socially just and flourishing society for all. NurseCare will take an empirical, theoretical, and pragmatic approach to develop a critical understanding of the role of nurses in advancing social justice by examining the practices of care of the self through which they respond to and act upon the injustices they encounter at the point of care and beyond. This project will position the fellows as a leading and influential nurse researcher working to advance the nursing profession, promote nurses’ wellbeing, and advocate for a social justice approach in all nursing, health, and health care policies.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
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07122 PALMA DE MALLORCA
Spain
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