Negotiating the role of expert carers on an adult hospital ward

Allen, Davina Ann ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6729-7502 2000. Negotiating the role of expert carers on an adult hospital ward. Sociology of Health and Illness 22 (2) , pp. 149-171. 10.1111/1467-9566.00197

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Abstract

Contemporary systems of welfare are increasingly underpinned by the assumption that families should care for their dependent adult relatives. Yet, the burgeoning empirical literature in this area has given little attention to the ways in which family caregivers fit into the service system. Drawing on interactionist theories of the division of labour, this paper employs ethnographic data, taken from a recent study, to explore the ways in which formal and informal carers negotiate ‘care’ on an adult medical ward. It is argued that established family carers (referred to as expert carers) constitute a special case in understanding the negotiation of care in the hospital context because of the challenge they pose to fundamental features of the social organisation of the work: nurses’ control over caring processes, their claim to expertise and their license to define standards of care.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RT Nursing
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Informal carers; hospital; division of labour; expertise; caring; negotiations; emotions
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0141-9889
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44005

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