Nursing in quality space: technologies governing experiences of care

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Abstract

This paper challenges contemporary portrayals in the nursing literature of the spaces within which care of patients in hospital settings is conducted. Within the wider discourse of fiscal restraint on health care spending, professional nursing has cast its disciplined eyes on details of the nurse-patient relationship for the ostensible purpose of repairing that which is treated as individual failings of nurses to practice in ways prescribed by nursing theories. Set aside in this approach to the so-called 'problems' of nursing practice has been an examination of the conditions within which nurses come in contact with patients, and a critical recognition that such contacts represent skilled accomplishments of social action. In this paper, these conditions are treated as resources available to both nurses and patients to generate accounts for the nurse's presence as well as the nurse's absence. Examples from an ethnographic study of nursing practice are used to illustrate how the spaces operating between nurses and patients are not empty voids but are social spaces through which particular meanings about nursing care can be conveyed.

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