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Elucidating the Ruling Relations of Nurses' Work in Labor and Delivery: An Institutional Ethnography
Paula Kelly1, Nicole Snow1, Maggie Quance2
1Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada.
Abstract:
Obstetrics is a well-known area for malpractice and medical-legal claims, specifically as they relate to injuries the baby suffers during the intrapartum period. There is a direct implication for nurses' work in labor and delivery because the law recognizes that monitoring fetal well-being during labor is a nursing responsibility. Using institutional ethnography, we uncovered how two powerful ruling discourses, namely biomedical and medical-legal risk discourses, socially organize nurses' fetal surveillance work in labor and delivery through the use of an intertextual hierarchy and an ideological circle.
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