The discourse of nurse-patient interactions : contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses / Shelley Staples, Purdue University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staples, Shelley, author.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; Volume 72.

Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 1388-0373 ; Volume 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurse and patient.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, table (some color), graphs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses is the first book to quantitatively examine a wide range of linguistic features in a corpus of interactions between nurses and standardized patients. The main goal of this book is to compare the discourse of U.S. (L1 English speaking) and international (L2 English speaking) nurses. The research design relies on a mixed method approach, including both quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis of lexico-grammatical, interactional, prosodic, fluency, and non-verbal features; assessments of interactional effectiveness; and qualitative interviews with nurses. The book offers a detailed description of the situational characteristics of the interactions and compares the discourse of nurses and patients in order to contextualize differences in the communicative styles of the two nurse groups. The results provide new insight into the way that sociocultural and linguistic aspects of nurse discourse contribute to the delivery of patient-centered care.

Contents:

Background

Corpus and data analysis

Situational characteristics of nurse-patient interactions

Interactional and lexico-grammatical characteristics of nurse- patient discourse

Interactional characteristics of usn and ien communicative style

Lexico-grammatical characteristics of USN and IEN communicative style

Fluency, prosody, and non-verbal characteristics of usn and ien communicative style

Relationship between USN and IEN communicative styles and patient discourse

Effectiveness of IEN and USN interactions

Synthesis and directions for future research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027267917

902726791X

OCLC:

1491311566