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    Role Theory: A framework to investigate the community nurse role in contemporary health care systems

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    Authors
    Brookes, K.
    Davidson, Patricia
    Daly, J.
    Halcomb, E.
    Date
    2007
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Brookes, K. and Davidson, P. and Daly, J. and Halcomb, E. 2007. Role Theory: A framework to investigate the community nurse role in contemporary health care systems. Contemporary Nurse. 25: pp. 146-155.
    Source Title
    Contemporary Nurse
    Additional URLs
    www.contemporarynurse.com.au
    ISSN
    1037 6178
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38028
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Nurses' perceptions of their role are influenced by societal attitudes, government policies and trends in professional issues. Dynamic factors in contemporary health environments challenge traditional nursing roles, in particular those of community nurses. Role theory is a conceptual framework that defines how individuals behave in social situations and how these behaviours are perceived by external observers. This paper reviews the role theory literature as a conceptual framework to explore community nurses' perceptions of their role. Three theoretical perspectives of role theory have emerged from the literature review: (i) social structuralism; (ii) symbolic interactionism; and (iii) the dramaturgical perspective. These philosophical perspectives provide a useful framework to investigate the role of community nurses in the contemporary health care system.

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