title: The applicability of the concept of recruitment to the communications study of a nursing home: an ethnographic case study.
abstract: A perspective for studying institutional procedures for assigning incoming patients to available wards, and for transferring patients between and among wards, is developed. Ethnographic data collected in one extended-care facility are presented. Staff-patient and patient-patient interactions surrounding ward assignments and transfers are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001513:Beds; D001519:Behavior; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010343:Patient Admission; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D012917:Social Adjustment