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.
Department of Health Studies, University of Central Lancashire.
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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*