Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (eBook)

Accomplishing Patient-centered Care

Staci Defibaugh (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
XIII, 133 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-68354-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach, examining the linguistic resources that NPs employ in their interactions with patients. These linguistic features are connected to the concept of professional competency with specific focus on the enactment of the patient-centered approach. Analytic focus is placed on how NPs address organizational responsibilities during medical visits with patients, the form and function of patient education, the use of indirect speech, and the role that small talk plays in health care encounters. The book explores the understudied professional field of nurse practitioners and examines their linguistic practices with an eye on crossing disciplinary boundaries, integrating research from linguistics, discourse analysis and health communication. It will appeal to those interested in medical discourse analysis and health communication, as well as applied linguistics scholars.

Staci Defibaugh is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Old Dominion University, USA. Her research examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioner-patient visits, the role of neoliberalism in healthcare in the US, and the positioning of patients as being responsible for their health.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Frontstage/Backstage: Attending to Organizational Responsibilities.- Chapter 3: Need to Know: Patient Education and Epistemic Responsibility.- Chapter 4: Treading Lightly: Indirect Speech in Medical Directives.- Chapter 5: Caring as Competent: Small Talk in Medical Visits.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Reihe/Serie: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 133 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Discourse analysis • epistemic access healthcare • healthcare delivery • healthcare discourse • healthcare visits • Health Communication • Health Outcomes • inpatient and outpatient visits • interactional practices • linguistic performance • medical checklist • Medical Discourse • nurse practitioners • Patient-centered Care • Physician Assistants • Professional communication • professional competency • provider-patient relationships
• ISBN-10: 3-319-68354-3 / 3319683543
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-68354-6 / 9783319683546