Journal
QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 145-158Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1049732317737980
Keywords
emotion practice; emotional capital; race; gender; nursing; patient care; audio diary method; United States
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- National Science Foundation [SES-1024271]
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In this article, we examine how race and gender shape nurses' emotion practice. Based on audio diaries collected from 48 nurses within two Midwestern hospital systems in the United States, we illustrate the disproportionate emotional labor that emerges among women nurses of color in the white institutional space of American health care. In this environment, women of color experience an emotional double shift as a result of negotiating patient, coworker, and supervisor interactions. In confronting racist encounters, nurses of color in our sample experience additional job-related stress, must perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor, and experience depleted emotional resources that negatively influence patient care. Methodologically, the study extends prior research by using audio diaries collected from a racially diverse sample to capture emotion as a situationally emergent and complex feature of nursing practice. We also extend research on nursing by tracing both the sources and consequences of unequal emotion practices for nurse well-being and patient care.
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