Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency : Accomplishing Patient-centered Care

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This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach, examining the linguistic resources that NPs employ in their interactions with patients. These linguistic features are connected to the concept of professional competency with specific focus on the enactment of the patient-centered approach. Analytic focus is placed on how NPs address organizational responsibilities during medical visits with patients, the form and function of patient education, the use of indirect speech, and the role that small talk plays in health care encounters. The book explores the understudied professional field of nurse practitioners and examines their linguistic practices with an eye on crossing disciplinary boundaries, integrating research from linguistics, discourse analysis and health communication. It will appeal to those interested in medical discourse analysis and health communication, as well as applied linguistics scholars. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Staci Defibaugh)....Pages 1-25 Frontstage/Backstage: Attending to Organizational Responsibilities (Staci Defibaugh)....Pages 27-52 Need to Know: Patient Education and Epistemic Responsibility (Staci Defibaugh)....Pages 53-77 Treading Lightly: Indirect Speech in Medical Directives (Staci Defibaugh)....Pages 79-100 Caring as Competent: Small Talk in Medical Visits (Staci Defibaugh)....Pages 101-120 Conclusion (Staci Defibaugh)....Pages 121-129 Back Matter ....Pages 131-133