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Communicative constructions of person-centred and non-person-centred caring in nurse-led consultations
Siouta, E Farrell, Carole Chan, E Walshe, C Molassiotis, A
Siouta, E
Farrell, Carole
Chan, E
Walshe, C
Molassiotis, A
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Abstract
PURPOSE:
Nursing is theorised to be a component of person-centred care. Communicative constructions of person-centred caring are a topic that needs to be studied in consultations. The study aimed to explore how person-centred caring and non-person- centred caring are verbally constructed in consultations between patients and nurse.
METHOD:
This study was qualitative using audio-recorded observations from consultations with advanced nurse practitioners in nurse-led chemotherapy clinics from four hospitals in the UK through purposive sampling. Discourse analysis was used to identify communicative patterns in 45 non-participant observations of nurse consultations.
RESULTS:
The dominant discourse was a non-person-centred oriented discourse framed by the biomedical model. It was also possible to identify fragments of an alternative discourse-a person-oriented discourse localising health problems within the patient's personal and sociocultural context.
CONCLUSIONS:
The prominent use of a non-person-oriented discourse focusing on the medical/technical aspects of a patient's assessment/evaluation in consultations may make it difficult for patients to raise questions and concerns from their daily lives during consultations. However, fragments of a person-oriented discourse show that it is possible for nurses to allow a person-centred approach to the consultation. The pedagogical implications have to do with raising nurses' awareness of the role of evaluative language in enhancing person-centred communication with patients in clinical interactions.
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2019
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Siouta E, Farrell C, Chan EA, Walshe C, Molassiotis A. Communicative constructions of person-centred and non-person-centred caring in nurse-led consultations. Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2019;40:10-21.