‘What Makes It Nice Is Also What Makes It Difficult’

IF 1.1 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.3167/aia.2021.280304

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Abstract

In health care the appropriation of new technology to assist and improve the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients can be challenging. Based on observations and interviews with nurses and midwives during the early implementation process of a new interactive and technologically improved patient room, this article examines how health care professionals make sense of their work in the new patient room as it becomes enacted in their everyday work practice. We find that the technologically improved room is met with some resistance by the nurses and midwives. We argue that by exploring appropriation of technology as a social process of sense-making (Weick 1995), it can be revealed how meanings assigned to the new room influences actions and interactions with it.

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“让事情变得美好的也是让事情变得困难的”

在医疗保健领域，利用新技术来帮助和改善患者的诊断、治疗和护理可能具有挑战性。基于对护士和助产士在新的交互式和技术改进的病房早期实施过程中的观察和采访，本文探讨了医疗保健专业人员如何在日常工作实践中理解他们在新病房的工作。我们发现，经过技术改进的房间遭到了护士和助产士的一些抵制。我们认为，通过探索技术的挪用作为一种意义制造的社会过程（Weick 1995），可以揭示赋予新房间的意义是如何影响行动和与之的互动的。

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Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： Anthropology in Action (AIA) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. Contributions reflect the use of anthropological training in policy- or practice-oriented work and foster the broader application of these approaches to practical problems. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and outside academia and aims to promote communication amongst practitioners, academics and students of anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of expertise and ideas. Recent themes and articles have included the anthropology of welfare, transferring anthropological skills to applied health research, design considerations in old-age living, museum-based anthropology education, cultural identities and British citizenship, feminism and anthropology, and international student and youth mobility.