'She's manipulative and he's right off': A critical analysis of psychiatric nurses' oral and written language in the acute inpatient setting

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 84-92

  Hamilton, Bridget ^a,b   Manias, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse; Documentation; Ethnography; nurses' language; Power; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; MORALITY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WRITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MORALS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING RECORDS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; STEREOTYPING; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED; WRITING;

EID: 33646264303     PISSN: 14458330     EISSN: 14470349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2006.00407.x     Document Type: Review

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