Board talk: How members of executive hospital boards influence the positioning of nursing in crisis through talk

• DOI: 10.1111/nin.12618
• Publication Date: 2023-12-04T09:23:10Z
• Authors: Arjan Verhoeven; Henri Marres; Erik van de Loo; Pieterbas Lalleman

Abstract Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning nurses. is a relational leadership practice. Using qualitative‐interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein (7), nurses (14), physicians and managers (6), from 15 Dutch hospitals, discussed nursing during COVID crisis. We found that consider in crisis task themselves not as collective, interdependent, and/or specific board responsibility. Furthermore, talk about profession (1) more practical than strategic, (2) ambiguous positioning, (3) distinctive medical profession. Such seemingly contrasts with notion interdependence highlights how actors depend on each other interaction. Interdependence central to collaboration crises. In this paper, therefore, depart leader “positioner,” talk—as discursive practice—to illuminate governance hospitals crisis, social, interdependent processes.