EAN: 9783319683539

NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PROF...

This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of
health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach  examining the linguistic
resources that NPs employ in their interactions with patients. These linguistic features are
connected to the concept of professional competency with specific focus on the enactment of the
patient-centered approach. Analytic focus is placed on how NPs address organizational
responsibilities during medical visits with patients  the form and function of patient
education  the use of indirect speech  and the role that small talk plays in health care
encounters. The book explores the understudied professional field of nurse practitioners and
examines their linguistic practices with an eye on crossing disciplinary boundaries 
integrating research from linguistics  discourse analysis and health communication. It will
appeal to those interested in medical discourse analysis and health communication  as well as
applied linguistics scholars.

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