Hospital and home : strange bedfellows or new partners?


Autoria(s): Gardner, Glenn E.
Data(s)

2000

Resumo

This paper addresses the hospital/community interface as an emerging context of health care practice. As a consequence of industry reforms health service managers are looking to the community space as a location for delivery of acute health care. This focus on the community is sharpened by the promise of cost savings and enhanced by the seemingly limitless potential of biomedical technology. The paper argues that the interface of hospital and community is a conceptual space where two different types of health services meet, bringing with them different cultural practices and expectations. The ‘hospital in the home’ programs that structure health care at this interface provide the delivery of acute nursing and medical care and the accoutrements of this care in the community, the neighbourhood, the home. Consequently, the home is becoming the new site for high technology ‘hospital’ care. This domestication of illness technology is contrasted with the notion of home as a place of sanctuary, familiarity and belonging.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/56478/

Publicador

Royal College of Nursing Australia

Relação

http://www.collegianjournal.com/article/S1322-7696(08)60349-2/abstract

Gardner, Glenn E. (2000) Hospital and home : strange bedfellows or new partners? Collegian, 7(1), pp. 9-15.

Fonte

Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Nursing

Palavras-Chave #111000 NURSING
Tipo

Journal Article