... 04 2018 01 06 2018 12 07 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Nursing practice Older adults Care values Discursive ethnography Functional decline Hospitalization While scouring the literature on “value...

... no attempt to speak to the rest of her workload, in these few minutes the nurse accomplishes multiple moments of nursing practice. Further, while the rationalistic approach presents the nurse as a highly skilled practitioner, Bourdieu’s theory of practice not only illuminates the nurse’s role as pivotal...