Abstract
The use of wireless phones in hospital units are increasing, inducing practitioners to carry a working phone each. A study performed in a medical hospital unit demonstrates that wireless phones can impair communication between health care practitioners and patients (Paasch, in press). Also wireless phones can compromise patient safety, both by disturbing the practitioners’ concentration, causing mistakes, and by transporting bacteria between patients.
This qualitative Ph.D.-study wishes to further investigate the effect of wireless phones on communication and treatment in hospital units, using participant observations, ethnographic interviews and video observations. The study will explore how wireless phones mediate and is mediated by practitioners communication with each other and patients. As hospitals are constructed and reconstructed by all communication within, this insight will enable considerations into values versus reality. Furthermore the study will investigate, how practitioners can stay attentive, and manage the balance between accessibility and presence.
The study will be situated within the field of discourse studies, with nexus analysis as its primary
theoretical and methodological approach, focusing on central mediated actions carried out by social actors. Initial participant observations and interviews, will help define situations for video
This qualitative Ph.D.-study wishes to further investigate the effect of wireless phones on communication and treatment in hospital units, using participant observations, ethnographic interviews and video observations. The study will explore how wireless phones mediate and is mediated by practitioners communication with each other and patients. As hospitals are constructed and reconstructed by all communication within, this insight will enable considerations into values versus reality. Furthermore the study will investigate, how practitioners can stay attentive, and manage the balance between accessibility and presence.
The study will be situated within the field of discourse studies, with nexus analysis as its primary
theoretical and methodological approach, focusing on central mediated actions carried out by social actors. Initial participant observations and interviews, will help define situations for video
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | Jul 2013 |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2013 |
| Event | Communication, Medicine and Ethics: Eleventh Interdisciplinary Conference - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 10 Jul 2013 → 13 Jul 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | Communication, Medicine and Ethics |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Melbourne |
| Period | 10/07/13 → 13/07/13 |