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Distal nursing
- Source :
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Social Science & Medicine . Jun2003, Vol. 56 Issue 11, p2317. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- This paper considers the spatial dynamics of nurse–patient relationships within hospitals, primarily in the USA, under conditions of organizational restructuring, and situates them within social theoretical perspectives on space. As a human practice to which relationship is considered essential, nursing depends upon sustaining an often taken-for-granted proximity to patients. But hospital nursing, I argue in this paper, is increasingly constrained by spatial–structural practices that disrupt relationship and reduce or eliminate such proximity. Three kinds of proximity are threatened: physical, narrative, and moral. Examining these proximities through a place–space lens suggests that nursing is increasingly “distal” to patient care. There are potentially dangerous implications in this loss of proximity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- *NURSE-patient relationships
*HOSPITALS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02779536
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9601269
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00230-7