temporal order definition
temporal order refers to, and provides a means of understanding, the meanings that use of time introduces to medical events or situations. So, for example, the daily 'round' structures medical staff's view of a day and its likely sequence of activities. For nursing staff the daily shift is structured into a temporal sequence by regularly scheduled events like meal times or periodic observations on patients. Particular days, operating days or admission days for example, will possess and achieve a temporal order that is noticeably different: