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ArticleNursing inquiry2025

"Organizing practice": The hidden work of homecare nurses in fighting health inequity and advancing social justice.

Anitha M Tind, Bente Hoeck, Helle Elisabeth Andersen, Charlotte Delmar

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Anitha M TindDepartment of Nursing and Occupational Therapy, UCL University College, Odense, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1534-9163
Bente HoeckDepartment of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Helle Elisabeth AndersenDepartment of Nursing and Occupational Therapy, UCL University College, Odense, Denmark.
Charlotte DelmarDepartment of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

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Abstract

The nursing profession has a long history of advocating for social justice and health equity, and both values profoundly infuse nursing ethics, theory, and education. Homecare nursing occurs between the patient's daily life at home and the public health care system. Therefore, homecare nurses ideally possess insight into the living conditions and social determinants of health that their patients experience. This interpretive phenomenological study explores the strategies employed by homecare nurses to fight health inequity and advance social justice. Data were collected through participant observations, situational interviews, and small group interviews with 12 homecare nurses from two municipalities. Three analytical approaches were used: paradigm cases, exemplars, and thematic analysis. The data identified two primary strategies homecare nurses use to circumvent, solve, and mitigate the negative consequences of social determinants of health on patients' care and treatment: "Negotiating practice" and "Aligning practice." "Negotiating practice" ensures that care and treatment are delivered in a way acceptable to all involved. "Aligning practice" ensures cohesion, progression in the treatment and care trajectory, and support for patients and relatives in navigating the system. Both strategies are part of nurses' largely hidden work, reflecting the nursing profession's position as nested between the individual patient and the system.

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Home Care ServicesQualitative ResearchSocial JusticeAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNurse's RoleSocial Determinants of Healthhealth equityhidden workhomecareinterpretive phenomenologynursingqualitative researchsilent knowledgesocial justice

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PMID39462982
PMCPMC11773439

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