Browsing Senter for profesjonsforskning (SPS) by Subject "Guidelines"
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Beyond guidelines: Discretionary practice in face-to-face triage nursing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article draws on ethnographic data from a Norwegian emergency primary care clinic (EPCC) to explore nurses’ discretionary application of guidelines. Specifically, it analyses nurses’ discretionary use of the Manchester ... -
Narratives and gatekeeping: Making sense of triage nurses' practice
(Sociology of Health and Illness;Volume 40, Issue 5 - June 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-17)It is well documented that emergency service staff consider some patients to be ‘inappropriate attenders’. A central example is ‘trivia’, denoting patients with medical problems considered too ‘trivial’ to warrant attention. ... -
Workplace assimilation and professional jurisdiction: How nurses learn to blur the nursing-medical boundary
(Social Science and Medicine;Volume 201, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03)In theorising ‘the system of professions’, Andrew Abbott emphasised how jurisdictional boundaries in the workplace are far fuzzier than those specified in law. A key reason for this fuzziness is the process he characterised ...