Kelly1999

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Kelly1999
BibType ARTICLE
Key Kelly1999
Author(s) Russell Kelly
Title Goings on in a CCU: An ethnomethodological account of things that go on in a routine hand-over
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Tag(s) EMCA, Medical EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Nurse, Routine
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Year 1999
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Journal Nursing in Critical Care
Volume 4
Number 2
Pages 85–91
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Abstract

The transcripts of two hand-overs in a critical care unit are ethnomethodologically examined. Specimens of nurses' practices in accomplishing forms of social order are identified. The hand-overs show how nurses transfer all sorts of taken-for-granted scientific, technological, medical, nursing, psychological and sociological material. Doing routine work in nursing is shown to be accomplished, with relative ease, during the hand-over when what would otherwise be viewed as dramatic features, such as 'professional authority' and 'telling about dying', are routinely managed by these nurses.

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