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Individualized Care: Its Conceptualization and Practice Within a Multiethnic Society by Kate Gerrish is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.
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**Individualized care: its conceptualization and practice within a multiethnic society** This paper reports on the selected findings from a larger ethnographic study of the provision of individualized care by district nurses to patients from different ethnic backgrounds. Undertaken in an English community National Health Service (NHS) Trust serving an ethnically diverse population, the study comprised two stages. First, an organizational profile of the Trust was undertaken in order to analyse the local policy context. Data were collected by means of in‐depth interviews with managers and a review of policy documentation and caseload profiles. Second, a participant observational study was undertaken focusing on six district nursing teams. Purposive sampling was used to identify four teams with high minority ethnic caseloads and two teams with predominately white ethnic majority caseloads. Interview transcripts and field notes were analysed by drawing upon the principles of dimensional analysis. This paper focuses upon aspects of the second stage, namely how the nurses’ conceptualized and practised individualized care. Six principles underpinning the philosophy of individualized care
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- Author
- Kate Gerrish
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0309-2402)
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Health Professions (Health Sciences)