[Interprofessional collaboration between new nursing graduates and social workers: Hospital discharge planning telephone calls.].

Introduction: In hospitals, the discharge of patients needing home care or going to a care facility is planned interprofessionally, in particular via telephone calls between nurses and social workers.

Context: During discharge planning, the collaboration between a nurse and a social worker is fraught with tension. When this planning is conducted over the phone and the nurse is a new graduate, the tension can be heightened.

Surgery nurses' telephone communication: a mixed methods study with a special focus on newcomers' calls.

Aims: The aim of this study was (i) to document the main features of surgery nurses' telephone calls, with a special focus on newcomers' calls; and (ii) to identify the main activities accomplished during the newcomers' calls.

Design: Mixed methods study.

Methods: We audio recorded telephone calls internal to the hospital in two surgery nursing stations.

Building Situation Awareness on the Move: Staff Monitoring Behavior in Clinic Corridors.

We conducted a workplace research project on staff mobility in a Swiss hospital outpatient clinic that involved extensive fieldwork and video recordings. The article describes monitoring practices and routines that staff engage in as they walk through the corridors and in and out of the clinic's rooms. The staff perform checks on on-going activity, share their observations with colleagues, and take responsive action while engaged in away-oriented walk or in specific roaming, action-seeking, rallying, and patrolling walk.

Hospital staff corridor conversations: work in passing.

Aims: First, to document the prevalence of corridor occupations and conversations among the staff of a hospital clinic, and their main features. Second, to examine the activities accomplished through corridor conversations and their interactional organization.

Background: Despite extensive research on mobility in hospital work, we still know fairly little about the prevalence and features of hospital staff corridor conversations and how they are organized.

[Telephone and coordination of intensive care in hospital].

The telephone is a central tool for the coordination of care in hospitals between the general wards and intensive care. Calls are short and frequent. They concern a wide variety of issues handled in parallel with other activities.