More Nursing Terms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8728106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip C Kolin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-46 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/455389 |
| OpenAlex | W2319908067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
N Language of Nursing (American Speech 48 [1973]: 192-2 10), I surveyed the nurse's lingo. Here I want to supplement the collection of terms given there. The United States has approximately 1400 schools of nursing, in 1976 graduating more than 77,000 RNs to work in hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, nursing homes, and public health agencies.' Because of the large number of persons in the profession and the diversity of their training and employment, it is inevitable that there should be some variety in the language of the RN. In the United States, however, there are fewer regional differences among nurses than in other occupational groups. The RN, regardless of her or his place of training, learns much the same information. British nurses do have a number of terms not
Sociology · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · linguistics and terminology studies · Medicine · Nursing · Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2006 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |