This article explores how temporal structuring of clinical activities affects nurses' establishment of caring relationships with patients, based on an ethnographic study in a Norwegian cancer ward in January–June 2017. By drawing on practice-based perspectives on time and care, the article shows how ‘medical time’, ‘patient time’ and ‘hospital time’ represent three distinct but interconnected clinical rhythms affecting caring relationships. In this way, the article provides insights into how caring relationships are established in nurses' intermediate role as temporal agents, accommodation various temporal structures associated with the biomedical and person-centred care models. Second, it contributes insights into how caring practices are temporally structured and reproduced in a hospital context. Finally, the article describes factors that influence different ways of structuring time, emphasising the need for temporal reflexivity and flexibility in meeting patients' care needs, and the role time to care plays in facilitating this.

本文基于 2017 年 1 月至 6 月在挪威癌症病房进行的人种学研究，探讨了临床活动的时间结构如何影响护士与患者建立护理关系。 本文借鉴了基于实践的时间和护理视角“医疗时间”、“患者时间”和“住院时间”如何代表影响护理关系的三种不同但相互关联的临床节奏。通过这种方式，本文提供了关于护理关系如何在护士作为时间代理的中间角色中建立的见解，适应与生物医学和以人为中心的护理模型相关的各种时间结构。其次，它有助于深入了解护理实践如何在医院环境中进行时间结构和再现。最后，