The temporal landscape of night nursing.

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AIMS

OF THE STUDY:
The study arose secondarily from a study with a different primary purpose (to consider attitudes towards the implementation of changes to working practices). Its aim is to provide a 'map' of the temporal landscapes of night nurses.

BACKGROUND:
Our temporal landscapes are made up of recognizable domains, with permeable borders - private time and public time, home time and work time, past, present and future time, cyclical time. Just as a geography of space contains recognizable natural features - rivers, deserts, mountains - and features created by human beings - canals, roads, skyscrapers - so our temporal landscape contains natural features - day and night, the seasons - and features created by us - the ordering of social, economic, legal, and organizational time into, among others, the practices of family life, financial periods, and workloads.

METHODS:
Data were collected during longitudinal ethnographic research - observation, formal interviews, informal conversations - with the emphasis on areas such as shift work, workload, and the temporal aspects of caring.

CONCLUSIONS:
The result is the production of a map, albeit a rough one, of the temporal landscape inhabited by night nurses as they go about their working lives.

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Author information

Author/s: Brown, Reva Berman (RB); Brooks, Ian (I);

Affiliation: Oxford Brooks University, Business School, Wheatly, Oxford, UK. revabrown(-atsign-)brooks.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of advanced nursing (J Adv Nurs), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Aug; vol 39 (issue 4) : pp 384-90

Dates: Created 2002/07/25; Completed 2002/11/06; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12139651, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Continuity of Patient Care
Humans
Nurses - psychology
Time

Time
Time Perception
Work Schedule Tolerance
Workload - psychology

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