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King R, Laker S, Taylor B, Ryan T, Wood E, Tod A, Senek M, Snowden S, Robertson S. Development of the nursing associate professional identity: A longitudinal qualitative study. Nurs Open 2024; 11:e2131. [PMID: 38454745 PMCID: PMC10920981 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.2131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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AIM The aim of this study was to understand the factors that contribute to the development of the nursing associate professional identity. DESIGN A 3-year longitudinal qualitative study of trainee nursing associates. METHODS Trainee nursing associates in England were interviewed remotely annually in February 2020, March 2021 and March 2022. They also provided diary entries. Data were anonymised, transcribed and analysed thematically. RESULTS Nursing associate professional identity was developed through: increased knowledge, skills and responsibility; and self-perceptions of identity alongside responses to the role by colleagues. Tensions arose when the scope of practice expected by organisations differed from that expected by the nursing associates. Frustrations occurred when nursing associates were perceived as substitutes for Registered Nurses in the context of nursing workforce shortages. CONCLUSION Nursing associates in this study clearly valued their new knowledge, skills and responsibility, enabling them to provide enhanced patient care. Increased clarity of role boundaries is necessary in enhancing the professional identity of nursing associates and reducing inter-professional tensions arising from role ambiguity within health and social care organisations. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROFESSION National guidance and employers should provide clarity on the boundaries of the nursing associate role which will strengthen their professional identity and mitigate role ambiguity within health and social care organisations. REPORTING METHOD The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research has been used to guide reporting. PATIENT OF PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION A patient and public involvement group was consulted during the initial study design stage. IMPACT This study aimed to understand the factors which contribute to the development of a nursing associate professional identity. Nursing associate professional identity is developed through increased knowledge, skills and responsibility, and the perceptions of identity by participants themselves and their colleagues. The findings should inform the implementation of initiatives to clarify nursing associate role boundaries and the development of similar roles internationally.
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- Rachel King
- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- Winona State University ‐ College of Nursing and Health SciencesWinonaMinnesotaUSA
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
- Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR), School of Medicine and Population HealthThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- The School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and MidwiferyThe University of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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Wising J, Ström M, Hallgren J, Rambaree K. Certified Registered Nurse Anaesthetists' and Critical Care Registered Nurses' perception of knowledge/power in teamwork with Anaesthesiologists in Sweden: a mixed-method study. BMC Nurs 2024; 23:7. [PMID: 38163862 PMCID: PMC10759417 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-023-01677-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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Efficient teamwork is crucial to provide optimal health care. This paper focuses on teamwork between Anaesthesiologists (ANES), Certified Registered Nurse Anaesthetists' (CRNA) and Critical Care Registered Nurses (CCRN) working in challenging environments such as the intensive care unit (ICU) and the operating room (OR). Conflicts are common between physicians and nurses, negatively impacting teamwork. Social hierarchies based on professional status and power inequalities between nurses and physicians plays a vital role in influencing teamwork. Foucault was a famous thinker especially known for his reasoning regarding power/knowledge. A Foucauldian perspective was therefore incorporated into this paper and the overall aim was to explore CCRN/CRNA perception of knowledge/power in teamwork with ANES.Methods A mixed-method approach was applied in this study. Data was collected using a web-based questionnaire containing both closed-end and open-ended questions. A total of 289 CCRNs and CRNAs completed the questionnaire. Data analysis was then conducted through five stages as outlined by Onwuebugzie and Teddlie; analysing quantitative data in SPSS 27.0 and qualitative data with a directed content analysis, finally merging data together in ATLAS.ti v.23.Results The result reveals a dissonance between quantitative and qualitative data; quantitative data indicates a well-functioning interdisciplinary teamwork between CCRN/CRNA and ANES - qualitative data highlights that there are several barriers and inequalities between the two groups. Medicine was perceived as superior to nursing, which was reinforced by both social and organisational structures at the ICU and OR.Conclusion Unconscious rules underlying current power structures in the ICU and OR works in favour of the ANES and biomedical paradigm, supporting medical knowledge. To achieve a more equal power distribution between CCRN/CRNAs and ANES, the structural hierarchies between nursing and medicine needs to be addressed. A more equal power balance between the two disciplines can improve teamwork and thereby reduce patient mortality and improve patient outcomes.
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- Jenny Wising
- School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden.
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- Region Västra Götaland, Skaraborgs Hospital Skövde, Dept of Anesthesia, Skövde, Sweden
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- School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden
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- Department of Social Work and Criminology, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
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Neiterman E, HakemZadeh F, Zeytinoglu IU, Kaminska K, Oltean I, Plenderleith J, Lobb D. Navigating interprofessional boundaries: Midwifery students in Canada. Soc Sci Med 2024; 341:116554. [PMID: 38160608 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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The literature on professional socialization focuses on how students adopt and internalize professional identities and values, and assumes that boundary work is essential to learning how best to practice their profession. However, a focus on boundary work in the context of midwifery training - which is embedded in the gendered and hierarchical landscape of maternity care - is lacking. Thus, this article examines how Canadian student-midwives learn to navigate and negotiate interprofessional boundaries. Grounded in a symbolic interactionist approach, it draws on 31 semi-structured qualitative interviews from a mixed-methods national study on midwifery retention, explores how midwifery students make sense of the tensions among midwives, physicians, and nurses, and describes what strategies they utilize when navigating boundaries. Our analysis, based in constructivist grounded theory, revealed that participants learned about interprofessional tensions in clinical placement encounters via direct or indirect interactions with other healthcare professionals, and that strategies to navigate these tensions included educating others about midwifery training and adopting a learner identity. This article proposes that the process of professional socialization enables to reshape professional boundaries and that students are not only learners but also agents of change. These findings may yield practical applications in health education by highlighting opportunities for improving interprofessional collaborations.
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- Elena Neiterman
- School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
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- School of Human Resource Management, York University, 150- 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada.
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- DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M4, Canada.
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- School of Human Resource Management, York University, 150- 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada.
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Health Sciences Centre, 2C 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada.
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- DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M4, Canada.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada.
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Zaccagnini M, Bussières A, Kim S, Nugus P, West A, Thomas A. What scholarly practice means to respiratory therapists: An interpretive description study. J Eval Clin Pract 2023; 29:1314-1325. [PMID: 37622229 DOI: 10.1111/jep.13917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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RATIONALE Engagement in scholarly practice has been associated with professional empowerment, role satisfaction and improvements in care delivery and patient outcomes across many healthcare professions. However, in evolving professions like respiratory therapy, scholarly practice is excluded from competency frameworks, resulting in a gap in education and subsequent application of this competency in practice. An exploration of scholarly practice in respiratory therapy may provide insights into evolving professions that face tensions between meeting competency requirements as outlined in frameworks and providing quality healthcare to the populations they serve. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to explore what scholarly practice means, and how it manifests in practice from respiratory therapists' (RTs) perspectives. METHODS We used interpretive description methodology. We purposively sampled participants to obtain varied perspectives of scholarly practice in respiratory therapy. We conducted 26 semistructured interviews with RTs in different roles (clinicians, educators, researchers, leaders and managers) across Canada and analysed the data using inductive analysis. Data collection and analysis proceeded concurrently. RESULTS We developed five main themes: (i) the identity of a scholarly practitioner in RTs; (ii) factors influencing scholarly practice; (iii) one's impression of their professional self-image; (iv) scholarly practice as a vehicle for changing practice and (v) the complex interconnections between knowledges and practices. CONCLUSION Scholarly practice appears to be a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing a wide range of activities and skills including conducting research, reflective practice, application of research to practice, and contributing to the advancement of the profession and healthcare. Scholarly practice is influenced by organisational context and culture, available resources, intrinsic motivation and external political context. We identified similarities between professional identity and the description of the scholarly practitioner, suggesting that these two phenomena may be interconnected. Furthermore, participants believed that scholarly practice could enhance the image, credibility, legitimacy and professionalisation of the profession.
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- Marco Zaccagnini
- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Département Chiropratique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Institute of Health Sciences Education, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- The Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists, St John, New Brunswick, Canada
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Institute of Health Sciences Education, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Sukovic S, Eisner J, Duncanson K. Observing, spanning and shifting boundaries: working with data in non-clinical practice. GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY AND COMMUNICATION 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/gkmc-02-2022-0045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Purpose
Effective use of data across public health organisations (PHOs) is essential for the provision of health services. While health technology and data use in clinical practice have been investigated, interactions with data in non-clinical practice have been largely neglected. The purpose of this paper is to consider what constitutes data, and how people in non-clinical roles in a PHO interact with data in their practice.
Design/methodology/approach
This mixed methods study involved a qualitative exploration of how employees of a large PHO interact with data in their non-clinical work roles. A quantitative survey was administered to complement insights gained through qualitative investigation.
Findings
Organisational boundaries emerged as a defining issue in interactions with data. The results explain how data work happens through observing, spanning and shifting of boundaries. The paper identifies five key issues that shape data work in relation to boundaries. Boundary objects and processes are considered, as well as the roles of boundary spanners and shifters.
Research limitations/implications
The study was conducted in a large Australian PHO, which is not completely representative of the unique contexts of similar organisations. The study has implications for research in information and organisational studies, opening fields of inquiry for further investigation.
Practical implications
Effective systems-wide data use can improve health service efficiencies and outcomes. There are also implications for the provision of services by other health and public sectors.
Originality/value
The study contributes to closing a significant research gap in understanding interactions with data in the workplace, particularly in non-clinical roles in health. Research analysis connects concepts of knowledge boundaries, boundary spanning and boundary objects with insights into information behaviours in the health workplace. Boundary processes emerge as an important concept to understand interactions with data. The result is a novel typology of interactions with data in relation to organisational boundaries.
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Dynamics of interprofessional teamwork: Why three logics are better than one. Soc Sci Med 2020; 265:113472. [PMID: 33223384 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Much research has used three logics to understand the dynamics of interprofessionalism: 1) assimilation, that is, adapting the work of others; 2) segregation, where professional roles are separated and boundaries defended; and 3) integration, a perspective on the complementarity of professional roles. However, we found no studies analysing all three logics in connection with each other. Based on an ethnographic study of interprofessional teamwork in the field of mental health and substance use in Norway, this article explores the dynamics of interprofessionalism from all three perspectives. The data collection consisted of 14 observation sessions and 18 in-depth interviews of professionals in the field of health and social work. Investigating how, when and why each logic came into play, the results show the importance of including all three logics to leverage each one's purpose and function, and how they appear almost simultaneously in many situations. By investigating all three logics, the paper provides a broader, more comprehensive view of interprofessional teamwork.
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Vázquez-Sánchez MA, Jiménez-Arcos M, Aguilar-Trujillo P, Guardiola-Cardenas M, Damián-Jiménez F, Casals C. Characteristics of recovery from near misses in primary health care nursing: A Prospective descriptive study. J Nurs Manag 2020; 28:2007-2016. [PMID: 32378748 DOI: 10.1111/jonm.13039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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AIM To describe the frequency and types of near misses and the recovery strategies employed by nurses in primary health care. BACKGROUND Insufficient data are available on the role of nurses in near miss events and related factors in primary health care. METHOD A prospective descriptive study was carried out at one Urban Primary Health Care Centre, within the Málaga-Guadalhorce Health District (Malaga, Spain), from January to December 2018. Four of the ten nurses volunteered to take part. RESULTS The nurses recovered 185 near misses, prevailing administrative or communication-related errors, followed by medication-related errors. No near misses were reported on the centre's anonymous error information platform. CONCLUSIONS A significant number of near misses occurred which could have been avoided with better communication among health care personnel. A striking finding is the failure to inform the health centre, which suggests that improvements in safety culture are needed. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT It is the responsibility and the duty of nursing management to be aware of the characteristics and frequency of near misses in primary health care, to implement strategies for improvement and to foster a culture in which the necessary information on actual or potential errors is supplied.
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- MOVE-IT Research group and Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain.,Research Unit, Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute of Cadiz (INiBICA), Puerta del Mar University Hospital, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
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Caronia L, Saglietti M, Chieregato A. Challenging the interprofessional epistemic boundaries: The practices of informing in nurse-physician interaction. Soc Sci Med 2019; 246:112732. [PMID: 31884237 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Interprofessional management of knowledge in health care settings appears to be particularly vital for the ways in which information circulates, medical decisions are taken, and nursing practices are implemented. Drawing on an extensive ethnographic fieldwork in an Italian Intensive Care Unit, this article investigates how the nurses orient to and concurrently challenge the nurse-physician epistemic boundaries by the different ways through which they perform "informing", and make it work as a diagnostic-relevant activity. Adopting an ethnographic-nurtured discursive approach to a dataset of video-recorded morning briefings, we analyze the nurses' informing contributions in terms of sequential position, turn-taking and turn design. We identify five practices of informing and show how they display different degrees of agency and differently impact on the team's "infectious diseases diagnostic reasoning". This article contributes to nurse-physician interaction studies by showing how the epistemic imbalance at play is interactionally accomplished by participants one interaction at a time. Particularly, the analysis demonstrates that the nurses actively contribute to the teamwork by a skillful management of knowledge that precedes the exercise of the physicians' epistemic and deontic rights implied in diagnosing and planning. Our findings illustrate how the nurses: a) exert their interactional agency without crossing the institutionally sanctioned epistemic and deontic boundaries to which they are observably oriented to; b) cautiously challenge the epistemic imbalance at play in nurse-physician interaction and c) actively contribute in setting the premises of the team's collective decisions. Conclusion and practical implications are proposed.
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Johannessen LEF. The commensuration of pain: How nurses transform subjective experience into objective numbers. Soc Sci Med 2019; 233:38-46. [PMID: 31170648 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Commensuration-the transformation of different qualities into a common metric-has recently received increased scholarly attention. While mostly studied at the meso- or macroscale, this article extends the focus to microscale commensuration. Based on fieldwork in a Norwegian emergency medical service, the article analyses how nurses rated patients' pain intensity on a scale from zero to ten. While nurses were instructed to score pain by combining patients' self-report with their own 'objective' assessment, the article finds that their actual assessments relied almost solely on the latter. After exploring nurses' objections against the use of self-report, the article reconstructs the principles, methods and beliefs underlying nurses' 'objective' approach to pain scoring. In so doing, the article demonstrates how a fundamental aspect of human experience was filtered through nurses' professional gaze-to the advantage of some patients and the disadvantage of others. The article also advances theorising on microscale commensuration, thus providing guidance for future studies of how the world is transformed through the everyday production of numbers.
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- Lars E F Johannessen
- Centre for the Study of Professions, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Pb 4, St. Olavs Plass, 0130, Oslo, Norway.
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Johannessen LEF. Narratives and gatekeeping: making sense of triage nurses' practice. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2018; 40:892-906. [PMID: 29664118 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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It is well documented that emergency service staff consider some patients to be 'inappropriate attenders'. A central example is 'trivia', denoting patients with medical problems considered too 'trivial' to warrant attention. Although research has repeatedly shown that frontline staff violate guidelines in turning away 'trivial' patients, existing research has paid insufficient attention to why staff are willing to engage in guideline-violating gatekeeping, which may put both themselves and 'trivial' patients at risk. To address this issue, the present article explores nurses' narratives about 'trivial' patients - referred to in this context as 'GP patients' - drawing on fieldwork data from a Norwegian emergency service. The article reconstructs three narrative clusters, showing that nurses' gatekeeping is motivated by concerns for the patient being turned away, for nurses and more critically ill patients, and for the service they work for. Some of the issues embedded in these narratives have been under-analysed in previous research - most importantly, the role of identity and emotion in nurses' gatekeeping, and how patient narratives can function as 'social prognoses' in nurses' assessments. Analysis of these narratives also reveals an antagonistic relationship between nurses and 'trivial' patients that contradicts nurses' ethical guidelines and indicates a need for healthcare reform.
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- Lars E F Johannessen
- Centre for the Study of Professions, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
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