Identifying types of attending: patterns of nurses' work.
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.
Bottorff
J L
JL
University of British Columbia School of Nursing, Vancouver, Canada.
Morse
J M
JM
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