scholarly journals We are not heroes —The flipside of the hero narrative amidst the COVID19‐pandemic: A Danish hospital ethnography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Halberg ◽  
Pia Søe Jensen ◽  
Trine Schifter Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Ethnography ◽  
Danish Hospital

Wonder-inspired leadership: Cultivating ethical and phenomenon-led healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 096973302199079
Author(s):  
Finn Th Hansen ◽  
Lene Bastrup Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
New Type ◽  
Danish Hospital ◽  
Sense Of Wonder

Three forms of leadership are frequently identified as prerequisites to the re-humanization of the healthcare system: ‘authentic leadership’, ‘mindful leadership’ and ‘ethical leadership’. In different ways and to varying extents, these approaches all focus on person- or human-centred caring. In a phenomenological action research project at a Danish hospital, the nurses experienced and then described how developing a conscious sense of wonder enhanced their ability to hear, to get in resonance with the existential in their meetings with patients and relatives, and to respond ethically. This ability was fostered through so-called Wonder Labs in which the notion of ‘phenomenon-led care’ evolved, which called for ‘slow thinking’ and ‘slow wondrous listening’. For the 10 nurses involved, it proved challenging to find the necessary serenity and space for this slow and wonder-based practice. This article critiques and examines, from a theoretical perspective, the kind of leadership that is needed to encourage this wonder-based approach to nursing, and it suggests a new type of leadership that is itself inspired by wonder and is guided by 10 tangible elements.

Dual leadership in a hospital practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Ravnborg Thude ◽  
Svend Erik Thomsen ◽  
Egon Stenager ◽  
Erik Hollnagel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Power Balance ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Hospital Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Danish Hospital

Purpose Despite the practice of dual leadership in many organizations, there is relatively little research on the topic. Dual leadership means two leaders share the leadership task and are held jointly accountable for the results of the unit. To better understand how dual leadership works, this study aims to analyse three different dual leadership pairs at a Danish hospital. Furthermore, this study develops a tool to characterize dual leadership teams from each other. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Six leaders were interviewed to clarify how dual leadership works in a hospital context. All interviews were transcribed and coded. During coding, focus was on the nine principles found in the literature and another principle was found by looking at the themes that were generic for all six interviews. Findings Results indicate that power balance, personal relations and decision processes are important factors for creating efficient dual leaderships. The study develops a categorizing tool to use for further research or for organizations, to describe and analyse dual leaderships. Originality/value The study describes dual leadership in the hospital context and develops a categorizing tool for being able to distinguish dual leadership teams from each other. It is important to reveal if there are any indicators that can be used for optimising dual leadership teams in the health-care sector and in other organisations.

Ideas Underlying Danish Hospital Planning

1956 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-21
Author(s):  
ALSTON G. GUTTERSEN
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Planning ◽  
Danish Hospital

Candidaemia and risk of intraocular infection: A Danish hospital-based cohort study

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Kirkegaard Karmisholt ◽  
Ulla Hjort ◽  
Lars Loumann Knudsen ◽  
Henrik Carl Schønheyder
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Danish Hospital

When the field is a ward or a clinic: Hospital ethnography

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbi Long ◽  
Cynthia Hunter ◽  
Sjaak van der Geest
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Ethnography ◽  
Clinic Hospital

PROFESSIONS, INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS, AND NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN THE DANISH HOSPITAL FIELD

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1555-1574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kragh Jespersen ◽  
Lise-Line Maltha Nielsen ◽  
Hanne Sognstrup
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
New Public ◽  
Danish Hospital

The Rise, Heyday, and Incipient Decline of Specialization: Hospitals in Denmark, 1930–1990

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Signild Vallgårda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Cost Containment ◽  
Hospital Policy ◽  
Hospital Sector ◽  
Central Task ◽  
Specialized Hospital ◽  
Therapeutic Procedures ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Danish Hospital

Between 1930 and 1990 Denmark's hospital sector and hospital policy underwent radical changes. In 1930 the sector was dominated by many small hospitals, with care as the central task. By 1990 the number of hospitals had almost halved, specialization had developed, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were hospitals' most important functions. There have been many claims that the shape of the health care sector is determined by the development of medicine. This article demonstrates that changes in other areas of society have greatly influenced the development of the Danish hospital sector. In the 1930s and 1940s, the focus was on equity and specialization; in the 1950s, on growth, rationalization, and division of labor; in the 1960s, on growth and planning; and during the last decades, on management, productivity, and cost containment. Since 1980 the specialization, growth, and political acceptability of the specialized hospital sector have decreased, a change that can be characterized as the incipient decline of the specialized hospital sector.

‘They are more careful’

2020 ◽  
pp. 493-515
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L Krause
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Parental Decision Making ◽  
Chinese Parents ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Hospital Ethnography ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Migrant Parents

This chapter analyses a poorly understood health practice: transnational caring for infants and children. A reproductive paradox provides the point of departure. A majority of births were registered to foreign women in Prato, Italy, yet many parents sent their babies back to China. The chapter focuses on decisions among transnational migrants, particularly Chinese parents working in the Made in Italy fashion industry, that result in the formation of global households. The chapter draws on hospital ethnography in the intimate space of a paediatric exam room and interviews with migrant parents and health-care workers. Qualitative data analysis reveals parents’ privileging of quality care. Findings challenge health-care professionals’ critical gaze and shed light on how migrant parents cope with transnational lives as non-citizen entrepreneurs and workers. Finally, understanding parental decision making may improve how practitioners approach health problems, particularly in a context of intensified migration and mobility.

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