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From: "Jones, Aled" <Aled.Jones@swansea.ac.uk>
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Subject: Communication and discourse
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Dear all
Very interesting discussion re. communication and discourse, but slightly
perturbed, by the use of nursing as a generic term in this context,  as (in
UK) nurse training, practice, socialisation and thus by extension discourse
is significantly different in psychiatric and general nursing. 

Also, having practised widely in both areas, I have never seen psychiatric
nurses use "scraps" in the same way as they do in general nursing wards.
Thus I assume Mike Hardey's research is about general nursing? 

My ongoing PhD thesis is on the construction of patient assessments by
nurses; exploring the initial interview, written documentation and the
handover (nurse-nurse communication at beginning/end of each shift) using
critical discourse analysis and narrative analysis.

Aled Jones
Nurse Tutor
Centre for Foundation Studies
School of Health Science
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea

E-Mail; aled.jones@swansea.ac.uk