The Materialization of Articulation Work and its Implications on Nursing Practices.
Barbara Mellini · 2013
The ethnographic study presented aims at highlight how nursing is carried out in practice. Cooperative informal practices in nurses daily work are described considering their relation to nurse professional mandate. The role of locally designed organizational artifacts and their relation with articulation work is exploited and, starting from the analysis of these informal tools, leading criterion on how work is organized in the wards are highlighted and translated into implications for design.