Nursing

The “new machinery”  new vision of nurse as machine monitors and as monitors themselves, esp. ICU nurses  new technological self-understanding and  new collegiality with docs: “While the new machinery of care fostered inequality among nurses, it stimulated collegiality, collaboration, and a ‘more equal’ relationship between nurses and physicians, if only because both nurses and physicians were often equally unfamiliar with it and harnessing its benefits required that nurses be allowed to diagnose and treat emergent life-threatening conditions” (Sandelowski, 127-8). Hildegard Peplau, among others expressed concern about automation in nursing, because essence of nursing resided in the interpersonal (as opposed to technical) relationship between nurses and their patients (130).