title: Identifying types of attending: patterns of nurses' work.
abstract: Verbal and nonverbal behaviors of nurses during interactions with cancer patients were examined by analyzing videotapes of caregiving. Using techniques of qualitative ethology, four types of attending were identified: doing more, doing with, doing for, and doing tasks. The findings provide support for an alternative method of classifying nurse-patient interactions that captures patterns of caring.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia School of Nursing, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bottorff
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Morse
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004645:Empathy; D005007:Ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D007697:Kinesics; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D014110:Touch; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014743:Videotape Recording