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Registered nurses' communication about abused children: rules, responsibilities and resistance
Author(s) -
Nayda Robyn
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.844
Subject(s) - denial , documentation , resistance (ecology) , emergency department , malpractice , medicine , psychology , nursing , family medicine , political science , law , ecology , computer science , psychoanalysis , biology , programming language
This paper provides an ethnomethodological perspective on registered nurses' communication about abused children. During the study, data were gathered in four ways. Nine hundred and fty South Australian hospital records of children were examined for nurses' documentation related to child abuse. Eleven paediatric department and emergency department registered nurses then responded to vignettes of suspected child abuse and were subsequently interviewed. Researcher journal entries about contextual issues served as the fourth stage of data collection. Data were analysed using Garnkel's documentary method of interpretation. The ndings included: nurses' use of codes of communication; denial and acts of resistance; and systematic malpractice. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.