Managing ambiguity and danger in an intensive therapy unit: Ritual practices and sequestration: Feature

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-59

  Philpin, Susan ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Intensive therapy unit; Nursing culture; Ritual; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG THERAPY; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; SYMBOLISM; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DRUG THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SYMBOLISM; UNCERTAINTY; WALES;

EID: 33846927941     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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