“Paradoxing the Dialectic” : The Impact of Patients’ Sexual Harassment in the Discursive Constructio... The Impact of Patients’ Sexual Harassment in the Discursive Construction of Nurses’ Caregiving Roles

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Beteiligte: Mcguire, Tammy, Dougherty, Debbie S., Atkinson, Joshua
In: Management Communication Quarterly, 19, 2006, 3, S. 416-450
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 416-450
ISSN: 0893-3189
1552-6798
DOI: 10.1177/0893318905280879
veröffentlicht in: Management Communication Quarterly
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>Using the concepts of paradox and dialectics, this qualitative study examines the tension that contradictions bring to nurses’ narrative construction of their roles as caregivers. The nurses in the study reveal that they negotiate their roles as caregivers within the dialectical poles of closeness and distance in relation to their patients. The sexual harassment of nurses by their patients, however, serves to destroy this ability to move between these poles and instead calls for a single response—distance. This “paradoxing of the dialectic” changes the ability to negotiate between closeness and distance and presents nurses with a paradoxical set of decisions on how to cope with such harassment and maintain their role as caregivers. Implications for theory are discussed.</jats:p>