Sökning: "contemporary hospital care"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden contemporary hospital care.
1. Contemporary home-based care : encounters, relationships and the use of distance-spanning technology
Sammanfattning : Encounters and relationships are basic foundations of nursing care and the preconditions for these foundations are changing along with a change in healthcare towards an increase of home-based care. In this development the use of distance-spanning technology is becoming increasingly common. LÄS MER
2. Care in revolt : Labor conflict, gender, neoliberalism
Sammanfattning : The present thesis is an exploration of normalization processes and the problem of appropriation in labor conflict. More specifically, it analyses the way contemporary labor conflicts in nursing relate to, and thereby help to illuminate, changes in modes of gender normalization under neoliberalism, and how nurse labor conflict thereby sheds light on wider patterns of labor strife. LÄS MER
3. Work-integrated learning in a hospital ward setting : Exploring the interdependency between the professions and the organization
Sammanfattning : Introduction:Contemporary hospital settings are a challenging learning and working environment for healthcare professionals. The challenges are largely related to the increasing need for healthcare caused by an ageing population, a lack of personnel resources, and demands for time efficiency. LÄS MER
4. "The hospital is a uterus" : western discourses of childbirth in late modernity : a case study from northern Italy
Sammanfattning : The medicalisation of Western childbirth that was initiated in the seventeenth century has resulted in healthier women and infants, but it has also changed the cultural definition of birth as a restricted female experience. There is an increasing insistence among experts to define birth as a heterosexual couple's experience and to regard the woman and the foetus as two separate 'patients. LÄS MER
5. No Heroics, Please : Mapping Deceased Donation Practices in a Catalan Hospital
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its consolidated specialised team of transplant coordinators (TCs). LÄS MER