Table 4

Manifesting opposing relationship to mobile-recording during a homecare visit

Client visit of H49Actions
(0.00 – 1.45)




(1.45-3.30)
C: Look! Someone is writing in your care plan. I can't write it down now. It's such a mess.
E: Where the hell is the (my) mobile phone? It's not in there either.
C: You can't write here if someone in the office is writing on a computer. (laughing)
I can't write.
With [name of the ERP] comes all sorts of surprises.

Who's doing the care plan now?
Sometimes you can see who’s doing it.
I think I've got the medicine written down.
E: It's not on the radiator, is it? No, it's on the little radiator.
C: No, but I'll call you in a minute [on your phone]. I don't know what to write down, otherwise I'll forget. But I can make notes, even if someone is re-making the care plan.
(3.30 – 5.00)


C: Remember who it was yesterday? Was there a substitute?
E: It was someone who had never been here before. I wonder where it (she) has put it.
C: Yes, this is the evening pill...
C and E are looking for the client's missing mobile phone in the apartment.
C sits down and begins to fill in the records on his own mobile phone
E looks under the hat on the top of the cabinet
E moves to sit at the table.

C shows his mobile phone screen to E.
C continues tapping the mobile phone

C shows the mobile phone screen to the client.


C spreads his hands.
E eats his breakfast.

C talks to herself, looks at her phone.


E points at the radiator.
C looks at the radiator.

C talks to herself


C taps at her mobile phone with her index finger for 60 seconds in silence.





C puts the mobile phone aside and starts feeling in her pockets, digs out a piece of paper with notes on the client. C moves to the fridge and starts asking E what he wants for lunch.

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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