Whiteboards: Mediating professional tensions in clinical practice

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-175

  Riley, Robin ^a   Forsyth, Rowena ^b   Manias, Elizabeth ^a,d   Iedema, Rick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Deconstruction; Health professionals; Oncology; Operating rooms; Whiteboards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION AID; DEONTOLOGY; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; TENSION;

EID: 36849001819     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CAM.2007.020     Document Type: Article

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