Discourses of anxiety in nursing practice: A psychoanalytic case study of the change-of-shift handover ritual: Feature

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-48

  Evans, Alicia M ^a   Pereira, David A ^b   Parker, Judith M ^a,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Private Practice   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Handover; Nursing; Psychoanalysis; Ritual; Shift report; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COOPERATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLISM; TABOO;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; NEGATIVISM; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; REPRESSION; STEREOTYPING; TABOO; VICTORIA;

EID: 38949170587     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2008.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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