Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency Accomplishing Patient-centered Care /

• Main Author: Defibaugh, Staci (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Nursing.; Sociolinguistics.; Medical education.; Professional education.; Vocational education.; Discourse Analysis.; Medical Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.

This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach, examining the linguistic resources that NPs employ in their interactions with patients. These linguistic features are connected to th...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Frontstage/Backstage: Attending to Organizational Responsibilities
• Chapter 3: Need to Know: Patient Education and Epistemic Responsibility
• Chapter 4: Treading Lightly: Indirect Speech in Medical Directives
• Chapter 5: Caring as Competent: Small Talk in Medical Visits
• Chapter 6: Conclusion.