“…Doing a physical assessment of a patient whilst giving a bed bath, observing how a patient manages specific activities of daily living by being present at mealtimes or sharing a cup of coffee are examples of how nurses can gather important patient knowledge (Mellow, 2007). At the present, however, there is a tendency for care work to be rigidly specified and scheduled on the basis of patient classification systems and divided between different types of care workers, paid and unpaid, as well as skilled ad unskilled, with qualified nurses increasingly being driven to perform both medical and administrative work (Kristiansen, Obstfelder, & Lotherington, 2015;Kristiansen, Westeren, Obstfelder, & Lotherington, 2016), as we shall outline below.…”