Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Acute Care Hospital

Abstract

This paper aims to answer the following questions by exemplifying the ethnomethodological studies based on the fieldwork in an acute care hospital. (1) What kinds of the experiences do people have while working in medical settings? We insist that the question is also a question for participants in the practice themselves. They use “member’s methods” to understand their experiences. (2) What kind of methods are there to research medical settings? We formulate ethnomethodology as the method for investigating these “member’s methods.” (3) How can we report our findings? This paper explicates the policy of ethnomethodological studies as hybrid studies, which regards findings as reminders of the practices.