TY - JOUR
T1 - How Writing Records Reduces Clinical Knowledge
T2 - A Field Study of Psychiatric Hospital Wards
AU - Buus, Niels
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - Through the practices of recording, psychiatric nurses produce clinical knowledge about the patients in their care. The objective of this study was to examine the conventionalized practices of recording among psychiatric nurses and the typical linguistic organization of their records. The study drew on data from an extended fieldwork on two Danish "special observation" wards. The results indicated that the nurses' recording produced "stereotyping" representations of the patients and reduced the nurses' clinical knowledge but that this particular way of recording made good sense in relation to the social organization at the wards.
AB - Through the practices of recording, psychiatric nurses produce clinical knowledge about the patients in their care. The objective of this study was to examine the conventionalized practices of recording among psychiatric nurses and the typical linguistic organization of their records. The study drew on data from an extended fieldwork on two Danish "special observation" wards. The results indicated that the nurses' recording produced "stereotyping" representations of the patients and reduced the nurses' clinical knowledge but that this particular way of recording made good sense in relation to the social organization at the wards.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=62949117644&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.apnu.2008.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.apnu.2008.04.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 19327551
AN - SCOPUS:62949117644
SN - 0883-9417
VL - 23
SP - 95
EP - 103
JO - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
JF - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
IS - 2
ER -
