When it’s good to be a bad nurse: expanding risk orders theory to explore nurses’ experiences of moral, social and identity risks in obstetrics units

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 77-96

  Striley, Katie ^a   Field Springer, Kimberly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

nursing; obstetrics; risk; risk communication; risk orders theory; social construction of risk

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BINDING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; IMAGINATION; MORALITY; NARRATIVE; NEWBORN; NURSE; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964008624     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2016.1169254     Document Type: Article

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