Elucidating the Ruling Relations of Nurses' Work in Labor and Delivery: An Institutional Ethnography.

ABSTRACT: Obstetrics is a well-known area for malpractice and medical-legal claims, specifically as they relate to injuries the baby suffers during the intrapartum period. There is a direct implication for nurses' work in labor and delivery because the law recognizes that monitoring fetal well-being during labor is a nursing responsibility. Using institutional ethnography, we uncovered how two powerful ruling discourses, namely biomedical and medical-legal risk discourses, socially organize nurses' fetal surveillance work in labor and delivery through the use of an intertextual hierarchy and an ideological circle.

SUBMITTER: Kelly P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10159245 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature