The Applicability of the Concept of Recruitment to the Communications Study of a Nursing Home: An Ethnographic Case Study

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Abstract
A perspective for studying institutional procedures for assigning incoming patients to available wards, and for transferring patients between and among wards, is developed. Ethnographic data collected in one extended-care facility are presented. Staff-patient and patient-patient interactions surrounding ward assignments and transfers are discussed.

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