Personal deixis and issuer identification in clinical documentation of nursing professionals

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the discursive practices that nursing professionals use in clinical documentation. The research applies personal deixis concepts and identification of the issuer in the professional writings in order to identify the care provided and the client’s evolution. The nursing records are means of inter and intraprofessional communication which present their own elements of theoric communication. In the research, the different issuer and recipient participation frameworks are identified and the way the professional is identified in the writing communication is analyzed. By doing this analysis we would be able to assess the responsibility assumption, the people who take part in the communicative event and the informative and communicative quality of these writings.