Tales from a Hospital Entrance Screener
An Autoethnography and Exploration of Covid-19, Risk, and Responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18971111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachelle Miele (0000-0003-4772-2038, Wilfrid Laurier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 493-513 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08912416221131512 |
| PMID | 38603266 |
| OpenAlex | W4306382150 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This autoethnography explores my experiences as a hospital entrance screener during the first wave of the pandemic in a hospital in Ontario, Canada. In April 2020, I was redeployed from my research role to a hospital entrance screener. Focused on my lived experiences, the purpose of this research is to provide a glimpse into what it was like to work in a hospital early in the pandemic, to understand these experiences in relation to sociocultural meanings, and to try to make sense of my experiences with COVID-19. Through reflections, I offer a critical account of my experiences working as a screener and analyze personal reflections about my thoughts, feelings, and experiences from a post-structural lens. My analysis reveals several themes: responsibilization, risk, emotional labor, policing and securitization, and the hero discourse. My experiences as a screener demonstrate the complexities of the COVID-19 society and experience
Autoethnography · Feeling · HERO · Pandemic · Sociology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Gender Studies · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology
Critique of Security
The “nurse as hero” discourse in the Covid-19 pandemic
Psychological impacts and coping strategies of front-line medical staff during Covid-19 outbreak in Hunan, China
Psychological impact of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak on health care workers in a medium size regional general hospital in Singapore
Psychological impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome on health workers in a tertiary hospital
Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019
Auto/Ethnography
Qualitative Methods for Health Research
The Politics of Life Itself
The Managed Heart
Autoethnography as Method
Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis
Policing biosecurity
Society Must Be Defended’
Autoethnography and Narratives of Self
Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism
Government and Control
Anthropologies of Modernity
They treated me like crap and I know it was because I was Native
SuperNurse? Troubling the Hero Discourse in Covid Times
Carrying as Method
Expectation is Always that the Practitioner Might Not Be Okay with Queerness
Bourdieu and Critical Autoethnography
An Autoethnography on Learning About Autoethnography
Essentially invisible
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |