Rethinking ethnography: Reconstructing nursing relationships

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 234-242

  Manias, Elizabeth ^a   Street, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absolute truths; Critical ethnography; Medicine; Methodology; Nursing; Poststructuralism; Power relations; Reflexivity; Research process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVATION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORK;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL CARE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; JOB DESCRIPTION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVATION; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RESEARCH DESIGN; VICTORIA;

EID: 0035235947     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01660.x     Document Type: Article

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