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Anthropological study of nurses sub-culture and the sphere of their daily life.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10490006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 広領域
Research InstitutionChiba University

Principal Investigator

TAKEI Hideo  Chiba University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50226982)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SHIMIZU Yasuko  Chiba University, Faculty of Nursing, Research Assistant, 看護学部, 助手 (50252705)
SUZUKI Motoi  Chiba University, Fuculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (40282438)
NOGUCHI Miwako  Chiba University, Fuculty of Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 教授 (10070682)
正木 治恵  千葉大学, 看護学部, 助教授 (90190339)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
KeywordsMedical culture / Nurses / Sub-culture / Sphere of daily life / Creativity / Nursing Education / Nursing practice / 日常性 / 医療人類学 / 病院の差別化 / 患者-医療者関係 / 医療者間関係
Research Abstract

In order to demonstrate interrelationship between nurses' sub-culture and their practice in the sphere of daily life, we carried out an investigation with nurses of 5 different hospitals and students in a nursing school. As methods, open questionnaired, participant observation, semi-formal interviews, and daily activity records were employed. The findings are as followings.
1) The sphere of daily life of nurses is strongly restricted by their working schedules. Recent Reforms in Health Care Delivery System in Japan have made the hospital administration very difficult, which in turn has influenced heavily on nurses' working schedules. This fact conditions a nurse's career : Once accepted the women's role expected, her career is to be linked to the status change in a "ordinary woman's" life cycle.
2) Daily jobs assigned to nurses influence profoundly in the making of a nurse's conscience. Daily practice filled with a plenty of routine works seems to have confined the nurses' intellectual growth and their creativity in a low level.
3) The structural oppression seems to exist in the educational relationship between nursing school students and teachers. And the category of "Nursing Staff" is often utilized to constitute a closed circle of nurses. Thus the nursing sub-culture are generated and reproduced in a quite isolated sphere of life.
4) As a conclusion, if we want to have nurses capable of performing humanistic nursing arts in technologically more advanced situations, advanced comparative research on nursing education, medical education, and co-medical educaion would be needed.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • 1998 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1998-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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