title: Categorizing "frequent visitors" in the psychiatric emergency room: a semistructured interview study.
abstract: Nurses can become demoralized and hostile toward frequent visitors in psychiatric emergency rooms because of the number of visits. The aim of this study was to develop more knowledge about the ways in which nurses categorize frequent visitors. Eleven nurses were interviewed, and their categorizing practices were examined from a social constructionist perspective. The results showed that the nurses did not categorize frequent visitors as particularly unlikeable or difficult to treat. Like other visitors, they could be categorized as difficult if they obstructed a smooth flow of successful referrals through the emergency room and/or there was poor rapport with the nurses.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C., Denmark. nbuus@health.sdu.dk
authors.forename: Niels
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buus
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D014789:Visitors to Patients / Q000145:classification*