Practical Love

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Care Work ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Shared Humanity

This chapter analyzes the subjective and experiential qualities of compassion in care work, with particular focus on how volunteers and recipients describe the relationships they forge with one another as deeply intimate experiences of care and affection. By focusing on intersubjective experiences of accompaniment, friendship, and love that emerge through circulations of care, members of Russia’s religiously affiliated assistance community describe their interactions as forms of intimacy and shared humanity, rather than spiritual encounters. This approach presents a counterpoint to anthropological theories of compassion and empathy by illuminating the dynamic and generative nature of economies of affect. Acts and ethics of faith-driven compassion build communities of intimacy and sentiment between assistance providers and their recipients.

Review of Tough Times and Tender Moments in Child Care Work.

1967 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 468-468
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS HOBBS
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Child Care Work

Dilemmas at a Primary Health Care Center: a baseline study for Computer-Supported Cooperative Health Care Work

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (03) ◽  
pp. 204-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Timpka ◽  
J. M. Nyce
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Health Care Work ◽  
Primary Health

Abstract:For the development of computer-supported cooperative health care work this study investigated, based upon activity theory, daily dilemmas encountered by the members of interprofessional primary health care work groups. The entire staff at four Swedish primary health care centers were surveyed, 199 personal interviews being conducted by the Critical Incident Technique. Medical dilemmas were mainly reported by general practitioners and nurses, organizational dilemmas by laboratory staff, nurses’ aides, and secretaries, and dilemmas in the patient-provider relation by nurses, nurses’ aides, and secretaries. Organizational and communication dilemmas reported by nurses, nurses’ aides, and secretaries often had their cause outside the control of the individual professional. These dilemmas were often “caused” by other group members (general practitioners or nurses), e.g., by not keeping appointment times or by not sharing information with patients. The implication for computer-supported cooperative health care work is that computer support should be planned on two levels. Collective work activity as a whole should benefit from individual clinical decision support for general practitioners and nurses. However, since most patient communication and organizational problems occurred at group level, group process support is required in these areas.

Care Work on the Front Lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Mary F. E. Ebeling
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Us

An ethnographic study of the work of nurse practitioners at an outpatient care facility shows how these medical professionals must endlessly multitask to fill gaps in the US social safety net. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new focus on the essential work of nurses and the lack of resources with which they often contend is especially timely.

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