Research - The "nurse as hero" discourse in the COVID-19 pandemic: A poststructural discourse analysis

Nurses have been labelled "heroes" by politicians, the mass media, and the general public to describe their commitment to providing front-line care to people with COVID-19, despite the risks of exposure and lack of clinical resources. Few studies have examined the implications of the hero discourse to nurses' professional, social, and political identities.

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