Doing ‘technological time’ in a pediatric hemodialysis unit: An ethnography of children

Abstract

Since the 1960s, hemodialysis has been a common intervention for children with endstage renal disease. For weeks, months or years, children's activities are disrupted because they must return to the hospital to be dialyzed about three times a week, for three or four

Compartmentalising time and space: a phenomenological interpretation of the temporal experience of commencing haemodialysis

“…In an ethnographic study of Canadian children who did ‘technological time’, being tied to the dialysis machine resulted in socio‐spatial segregation with the rituals of the dialysis unit perceived as long and boring (Zitzelsberger ). For the participants of Karamanidou et al .…”

Geographical thinking in nursing inquiry, part one: locations, contents, meanings

“…Specifically, a range of relationships has been articulated including how places are attributed symbolism and identity by, and in relation to, nurses but are oftentimes disputed and contested (Savage, ; Halford & Leonard, , , ; Cheek, ; Gilmour, ), and thus, how places typify and express particular professional nursing disciplines (and vice versa) (Roush & Cox, ; Andrews et al ., ; Shattell et al ., ; Thompson, ; Lapum et al ., ; Oandasan et al ., ; Davis & Walker, ; Corrêa et al ., ). For example, place has recently been articulated as critical to the nature of mental health care (Montgomery, ; Andes & Shattell, ), community health (Bender et al ., ), home care (Duke & Street, ), midwifery (Lock & Gibb, ; Burges Watson et al ., ), gerontology (Cheek, ), and paediatrics (Zitzelsberger et al ., ).…”

Geographical thinking in nursing inquiry, part two: performance, possibility, and non‐representational theory

“…In sum then, nonrepresentational theory study's mutualityco-invention and co-evolutionbetween things (Anderson & Harrison, 2010). With regard to alignments in nursing, these relationalities are evident in a range of critical research that considers the energy and agency that technologies and other objects possess and exert in caring contexts (Sandelowski, 1996(Sandelowski, , 1999Barnard & Sandelowski, 2001;Wilson, 2002;Peter et al, 2014;Zitzelsberger et al, 2014) and in a broader interest in materiality and material cultures in nursing and health-related life (Sandelowski, 2003;Holmes et al, 2010;Hujala & Rissanen, 2011). Here, mirroring recent work in non-representational theory, scholars have developed a distinctly posthumanistic approach by drawing on Actor Network Theory (Dent, 2003) and Haraway's notion of the cyborg and reading of technoscience (Lapum et al, 2012a;Einboden et al, 2013).…”