Vol. 25 No. 43 (2025): The biosocial
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Neurological Nursing as a Biosocial Choreography

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  • Christian Gybel Jensen,
  • Mia Ingerslev Loft
Christian Gybel Jensen
Afdeling for Hjerne- og Nervesygdomme, Rigshospitalet
Mia Ingerslev Loft
Afdeling for Hjerne og Nervesygdomme, Rigshospitalet & Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi, Roskilde Universitet
Forsiden med overskriften: Det Biosociale. Forestiller en rød og blå fugl med spredte vinger, malet i akvarel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v25i43.148807

Published 2025-12-08

Keywords

  • The Biosocial,
  • Biosocial,
  • Choreography,
  • Nursing,
  • Neurological Nursing,
  • Entanglement,
  • Practice,
  • Experience,
  • Routines,
  • Routinization
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Gybel Jensen, C., & Ingerslev Loft, M. (2025). Neurological Nursing as a Biosocial Choreography. Tidsskrift for Forskning I Sygdom Og Samfund - Journal of Research in Sickness and Society, 25(43), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v25i43.148807

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Abstract

This article explores how nursing in neurology is experienced and performed as a biosocial choreography by and with living aspects in practice. With emphasis on how nurses navigate and handle their work in practice together with diverse lives in motion, we unfold how nurses' work is done with an understanding of patients as biosocial, which is expressed discursively through conversations about specific nursing situations. Throughout the article, we show how the living aspects of practice make nurses iterate the work as changeable, complex, and unpredictable. The nurses strive to navigate their work with an understanding of humans as more than their biological bodies and more than their social relations to other people. The biosocial choreography is an endeavour to navigate specific life situations, life stories, bodily states, and other present life forms, which can be entangled in practice. This requires both sensory and reflective approaches to nursing and to the lives involved. These approaches are reproduced in routines and embodied movements in nursing tasks, but they shift anew when living movement challenges embedded work patterns. Meanwhile biosocial choreography is challenged by other logics, structures, stories and workflows in the health system. The biosocial choreography takes time to learn and is a continuously challenging task that is never fully completed, which means the biosocial aspect is expressed as an ideal for nurses' work in practice. 

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