The Symbolic Functions of Nurses' Cognitive Artifacts on a Medical Oncology Unit
| Autor: | Nancy Staggers, Jacquelyn W. Blaz, Kristin G. Cloyes, Alexa K. Doig |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Oncology
Adult Male Pride medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject Specialty Identity (social science) Nurses Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Acute care Oncology Service Hospital medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine General Nursing Qualitative Research media_common 030504 nursing Patient Handoff Middle Aged United States The Symbolic Female 0305 other medical science Psychology Cognitive artifacts Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Western journal of nursing research. 40(4) |
| ISSN: | 1552-8456 |
| Popis: | Acute care nurses continue to rely on personally created paper-based tools—their “paper brains”—to support work during a shift, although standardized handoff tools are recommended. This interpretive descriptive study examines the functions these paper brains serve beyond handoff in the medical oncology unit at a cancer specialty hospital. Thirteen medical oncology nurses were each shadowed for a single shift and interviewed afterward using a semistructured technique. Field notes, transcribed interviews, images of nurses’ paper brains, and analytic memos were inductively coded, and analysis revealed paper brains are symbols of patient and nurse identity. Caution is necessary when attempting to standardize nurses’ paper brains as nurses may be resistant to such changes due to their pride in constructing personal artifacts to support themselves and their patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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