title: Doing through speech: the health visitor's skill.
abstract: Health visitor training demands a radical change in outlook. Nurses and midwives, coming from a practical, 'hands-on' approach, face a major professional re-orientation in order to work principally through the medium of language. Katherine Brettell uses the theory of 'speech acts' to explore and explain the process of health visiting, demonstrating the need for practitioners to be highly skilled communicators.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Brettell
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009736:Nursing Process