Sterie2015
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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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