COMMUNICATIVE DIMENSIONS OF EFFECTIVE NURSING PRACTICE.
Contributors: University of Washington.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Speech Communication.
Description: This study used qualitative research methods to examine communicative dimensions of effective nursing practice. The study was based on participant observation and unstructured interviews of seven 'effective' and two randomly selected nurses employed by two urban hospitals. A typological analysis of the data revealed that nursing communication could be categorized in terms of three communicative functions: informative, regulative and interpersonal; and five categories of interactant: patients/significant others, nursing professionals, physicians, individual health care workers and groups of health care workers. Strategies used to accomplish each communicative function were catalogued and characteristic patterns of strategy usage determined for each interactant group. Comparative analysis of the data indicated that nurses conceptualized communication as a tool for information management, the strategy dimensions of which varied according to the status relationship of their interactants. Results of the study were discussed in terms of impact on the perception of nursing effectiveness, implications for nursing education, and the future role of qualitative research in nursing.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-12, Section: A, page: 4232.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 1986.

School code: 0250.