title: Time for clients: temporal aspects of community psychiatric nursing.
abstract: Time is an integral element in all actions, organizations and relationships. Temporality has an effect on people's lives, and in turn people manipulate temporality as a means of imposing social order. From a semiotic perspective the amount of time spent on an action and the timing of its conveys messages about such things as importance and status. This holds equally true of organizations as well as individuals. This paper concentrates on a community psychiatric nursing department, its staff and clients. Sections of speech taken from interviews with nurses and clients are presented and discussed from the perspective of temporality to show how relationships are managed on an individual level and how work is organized around different client groups at an organizational level.
authors.affiliation: Community Psychiatric Nursing Department, Stockport Health Authority, Stepping Hill Hospital, England.
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authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D013997:Time Factors; D013998:Time Perception; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance; D016526:Workload