The Human Related Conversation and The Professional Tension Between Diakonia and Nursing

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ID21820943
AuthorsConny Hjelm (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue2
Pages137-160
Publication date2021-09-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiaconia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1869-3261 • E-ISSN: 2196-9027
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.13109/diac.2021.12.2.137
OpenAlexW4312304399
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited22

This article explores how nurses experience tension in a professional collaboration between nursing and work with a diaconal profile in Filadelfia, Denmark. Filadelfia was founded in 1897 as a diaconal institution with a hospital and deaconess house. Today, Filadelfia appears primarily as a highly specialized Epilepsy Hospital unrelated to diakonia. The collaboration this article investigates is called The Human Related Conversation (hereafter THRC). It is a practice developed within a diaconal unit of the institution, Filadelfia Uddannelse, and performed by nurses at Filadelfia Epilepsy Hospital. The article is based on a discourse analysis of five interviews conducted using THRC. The analysis finds that the nurses’ experience of THRC generates different discourses, including a nursing discourse and a legitimacy discourse, and encourages them to work in a more value-conscious way

Conversation · Discourse analysis · Institution · Legitimacy · Linguistics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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