Rolling with the Punches: Clinician Resistance in a Managerial NHS Hos...

Mogamat Reederwan Craayenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Teresa Carmichael, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Awaatief Musson-Craayenstein, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Abstract The substantive area explored in this article is hospital consultants in an English Acute NHS hospital dealing routinely with increasing managerialism. Data were drawn from 49 interviews with hospital consultants, at one English Acute NHS hospital Trust. The classic grounded theory named “Rolling with the Punches” that emerged was enriched by...

Positioning: A classic Grounded theory on nurse researchers employed i...

Connie Berthelsen, RN, MSN, PHD, Aarhus University, Denmark Abstract The purpose of this classic grounded theory was to discover the general pattern of behavior of nurse researchers employed in clinical hospital research positions. Internationally, efforts have been made to strengthen evidence-based practice by hiring more nurses with a PhD for research positions in clinical practice. However, these nurse researchers are often left to define their own roles. I used data from a Danish anthology of six nurse researchers’ experiences of being employed in clinical hospital...

About the Authors

Connie Berthelsen, RN, MSN, PHD.  Dr. Berthelsen completed her MSc in 2007 and her PhD in 2013 at the Section of Nursing, Aarhus University, Denmark. Dr. Berthelsen has a strong background in classic grounded theory. In her PhD, she generated three grounded theories of relatives’, patients’, and health professionals’ patterns of behavior in relation to relatives’ involvement in older patients’ fast-track programs during total joint replacement, using Dr. Glaser’s classic grounded theory method. She also teaches Master’s and PhD students in grounded theory methodology. Dr....