The Applicability of the Concept of Recruitment to the Communications Study of a Nursing Home: An Ethnographic Case Study.

Sigman, Stuart J.

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ERIC Number: EJ337254

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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The Applicability of the Concept of Recruitment to the Communications Study of a Nursing Home: An Ethnographic Case Study.

Sigman, Stuart J.

International Journal of Aging and Human Development, v22 n3 p215-33 1985-86

Develops a perspective for studying institutional procedures for assigning incoming patients to available wards and for transferring patients between and among wards. Presents ethnographic data collected in one extended-care facility. Discusses staff-patient and patient-patient interactions surrounding ward assignments and transfers. (Author/ABB)

Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Organizational Communication, Patients, Recruitment, Social Structure, Social Systems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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