The Human Related Conversation and The Professional Tension Between Diakonia and Nursing
Abstract 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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Diaconia |
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| Online Access: | https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/diac.2021.12.2.137 |
| Summary: | Abstract 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1869-3261 2196-9027 |