Goings-on in a CCU: an ethnomethodological account of things that go on in a routine hand-over.
The transcripts of two hand-overs in a critical care unit are ethnomethodologically examined. Specimens of nurses' practices in accomplishing forms of social order are identified. The hand-overs show how nurses transfer all sorts of taken-for-granted scientific, technological, medical, nursing, psychological and sociological material. Doing routine work in nursing is shown to be accomplished, with relative ease, during the hand-over when what would otherwise be viewed as dramatic features, such as 'professional authority' and 'telling about dying', are routinely managed by these nurses.
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Department of Health Studies, University of Central Lancashire.
D003142:Communication; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D003325:Coronary Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009737:Nursing Records; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*