Structures of District Nurse : Patient Interaction
Författare
Summary, in English
Data consists of ethnographic material, primarily nurses’ textbooks, interviews with nurses, and observations of nurses’ meetings with patients. Data also consists of 64 audio and video recordings of encounters between 17 nurses and 58 patients. 32 of these recordings have been transcribed and analyzed in detail.
District nurse-patient interactions occur in rather straightforward ways. This interpretation is strengthened by comparisons between these interactions and interactions in other institutional settings (between health visitors and first-time mothers, HIV counselors and clients, doctors and patients). The main reason for the straightforwardnesses is found in the nature of district nurses’ work: They meet patients in order to perform tests and treatments, which are unproblematic manual activities. The verbal activities that are generated during these meetings tend to become rather straightforward.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1998
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Dissertations in Sociology
Issue
25
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Department of Sociology, Lund University
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- primary care
- patient
- social interaction
- conversation analysis
- ethnomethodology
- ethnographic method
- district nurse
- Care and help to handicapped
- video analysis
- Handikappade
- vård och rehabilitering
Status
Published
Handledare
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1102-4712
- ISBN: 91-89078-44-6
- ISRN: LUSADG/SASO--98/1120--SE
Försvarsdatum
28 september 1998
Försvarstid
10:15
Försvarsplats
Carolinasalen, Kungshuset
Opponent
- David Silverman (Professor)