Professionalization of Project Management

CHAPTER 4

Findings from Nursing Web Site Survey

Nursing provides an interesting comparison to project management for several reasons. First, the issues and implications of the professionalization of nursing have been well studied in the nursing, medicine, and sociology literatures. This wealth of research provides an important history of the professionalization effort and provided the foundation issues identified in Chapter 2. Second, nursing is a quintessential employee-based profession that has many similarities with the large component of project management that is practiced within organizations by employees. This means that the struggle to maintain autonomy over the scope of practice should be informative. Third, nursing originally “borrowed” ...