Sterie2015

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Sterie2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sterie2015
Author(s) Anca Cristina Sterie
Title Recalling the doctor to action–two requesting formats employed by a nurse for making relevant the doctor's intervention
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Tag(s) EMCA, Medical EMCA, requesting, doctor-patient interaction
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language)
Volume 9
Number 2
Pages 118–137
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Abstract

At the hospital, nurses' telephone calls to doctors mostly revolve around obtaining doctors' intervention in a medical case. To achieve this, nurses need to make the doctor's intervention relevant, by explicitly requesting it or, more indirectly, by reporting a medical problem. Two recorded telephone conversations have been selected for analysis that show a young and newly employed nurse dealing with a medically and inter-professionally difficult situation: reminding a doctor that he has delayed too much his coming to see a patient. By deploying a conversation analytic approach, the article assesses two different practices or resources the nurse uses for negotiating and obtaining the doctor’s intervention – an explicit request and a report of a medical problem.

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