The morning tea break ritual : A case study

Title: The morning tea break ritual : A case study
Creator: Lee, David
Date: 2001
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/54164
Identifier: vital:515
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-172X.2001.00246.x
Identifier: ISSN:1322-7114
Abstract: Many nursing scholars have examined the negative effects of rituals in nursing practice, and have argued for nurses to abolish these ritual practices; however, rituals remain resilient. There must be reasons that nurses are keeping these rituals alive. This study aimed to explore the meanings of the 'morning tea break ritual' to a group of nurses in a medical ward. The study employed an ethnographic methodology and found that the morning tea break ritual provided time, space and an environment where nurses can ventilate their feelings and gain each other's support. Thus, the morning tea break ritual has positive contribution to nurses' work and both nurses and patients are the beneficiaries of this ritual act.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Relation: International journal of nursing practice Vol. 7, no. 2 (2001), p. 69-73
Rights: Copyright Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: 1110 Nursing; Hospital nursing staff; Organizational case studies; Organizational culture; Personnel staffing and scheduling
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