The silence and the silencing of the nurse's voice: a reading of patient progress notes.
Content analysis of text offers a method for exploring experiences which usually remain unquestioned and unexamined. In this paper the authors analyse a set of patient progress notes by re-framing them as a narrative account of a significant event in the experience of a patient, her family and attending health care workers. Examination of these notes provides insights into aspects of clinical practice which are usually dealt with at a taken-for-granted level. An interpretation of previously unexamined therapeutic practices within the social and political context of institutional health care is offered.
Parker
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Gardner
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D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*