Morbidly obese patients and lifestyle change: constructing ethical selves.

abstract：:This paper explores some of the implications of hermeneutic philosophy for nursing research. Using illustrative material from recent research into the quality of life of older people in nursing homes, the paper shows that hermeneutics provides a perspective from which to examine the literature, and which guides both t...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Draper P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper revisits some of the aspects that allow us to situate historically the process that has been called the 'politicization of women's breasts'. It is part of a broader research project being undertaken in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which is studying information from the educational material used in the Nationa...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Meyer DE,de Oliveira DL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally viewed as in opposition to palliative care, newer ideas about 'health-promoting palliative care' increasingly infuse the practices and philosophies of healthcare professionals, often invoking ideals of empowerment and participation in care and decision-making. The general tendency is to assume that empow...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Stajduhar K,Funk L,Jakobsson E,Ohlén J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a framework for establishing rigour for a discourse analysis of professional transition in midwifery, theorised as a 'female professional project'. Discourse analysis has gained recognition as a useful approach in nursing and midwifery research. It provides an alternative to those qualitative appro...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Nixon A,Power C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoliberal ideology and exclusionary policies based on racialized identities characterize the current contexts in North America and Western Europe. Nursing knowledge cannot be abstracted from social, political and historical contexts; the task of examining the influence of race and racial ideologies on disciplinary kn...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Hilario CT,Browne AJ,McFadden A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of corporatism in health-care in the US, and the consequences arising from US models of health-care delivery systems provide an enormously valuable point of comparison with health systems of other developed economies, such as Australia. If lessons are to be learnt from the US, then an analysis of the struct...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Heslop L,Peterson C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades there has been an increasing push towards 'enhancing' communication in the medical encounter, with a focus on moving towards a 'mutuality' of patient and health care professional that reduces a perceived 'power imbalance' between the two. Doctors in particular have been constructed as dominat...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Lupton D

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care workers' (HCW) perceived epistemic authority (EA) may have an effect on patient decision-making and compliance. The present study investigated the hypotheses that higher EA is attributed to staff perceived to be experts; to physicians rather than nurses; to HCWs who recommend taking a test more than to the...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Barnoy S,Ofra L,Bar-Tal Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes how an innocent venture outside the confines of academia to update my nursing skills completely changed the focus of my research. I was deeply involved in the theoretical development of my thesis, which I thought was a feminist exploration of the meaning of health for mid-life women. I was immerse...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Huntington A

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research interviews are a widely used method in qualitative health research and have been adapted to suit a range of methodologies. Just as it is valuable that new approaches are explored, it is also important to continue to examine their appropriate use. In this article, we question the suitability of research interv...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Fadyl JK,Nicholls DA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based practice has risen to prominence over the last 20 years. Different professions have taken it up in different ways and for different purposes. It has been seen as holding both threats and advantages to professionalising endeavours and professional identity. It has engendered controversy but some criticis...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Traynor M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is over 20 years since Michael Crotty's groundbreaking critique of phenomenological research in nursing. However, rather than entering into the acrimonious discussions that followed, we developed a research method that we believed translated Gadamer's philosophy into the world of empirical research. Fundamental to ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Fleming V,Robb Y

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to extend the discussion of culture in the study of nursing, combined with an enthusiasm for the possibility of viewing nursing from a new perspective, provides the impetus for this study. Based on fieldwork undertaken in the intensive care unit (RICU) of a major public hospital in Rome (Italy), this paper ex...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Goopy SE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores child health care nurses' pedagogical knowledge when supporting parents in their parenthood using various teaching practices, that is how to organise and process the content during parent education groups in primary health care. The aim is to identify teaching practices used by child health care nu...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Forslund Frykedal K,Rosander M,Barimani M,Berlin A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health of a nation tells much about the nature of a social contract between citizen and state. The way that health care is organised, and the degree to which it is equitably accessible, constitutes a manifestation of the effects of moments and events in that country's history. Research around health inequalities o...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Flynn AV,Lynam JM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse health care events are a global public health issue despite major efforts, and they have been acknowledged as a complex concern. The aim of this study was to explore the construction of unsafe care using accounts of adverse events concerning the patient, as reported by patients, relatives, and health care prof...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Gyberg A,Henoch I,Lepp M,Wijk H,Ulin K

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we examine the notion of human agency in the context of women experiencing a chronic illness. Based on two qualitative studies conducted with Canadian women of Chinese- and Anglo-descent living with diabetes, we unmask the complex power relations inherent in patient-practitioner interactions, and problem...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Tang SY,Anderson JM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative inquiry into eating disorders is burgeoning, offering valuable and innovative insights into various aspects of the condition. This study used life-history interviews with 20 women who had recovered from anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or both and who had remained healthy. The interviews focused on the wo...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Patching J,Lawler J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to explore and illuminate the phenomenon of busyness as experienced by nurses. The daily work of nursing practice is often characterized by a hectic pace in the execution of tasks. Previous research shows that busyness can potentially lead to a reduction in the quality of nursing. Little h...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Govasli L,Solvoll BA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Problematic substance use (PSU) among nurses has wide-ranging adverse implications. A critical integrative literature review was conducted with an emphasis on building knowledge regarding the influence of structural factors within nurses' professional environments on nurses with PSU. Five thematic categories emerged: ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Ross CA,Berry NS,Smye V,Goldner EM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous notions of science as impartial and value-neutral have been refuted by contemporary views of science as influenced by social, political and ideological values. By locating nursing science in the dominant political ideology of liberalism, the author examines how nursing knowledge is influenced by liberal philo...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Browne AJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a critique of some research methods evident in contemporary nursing literature. The arguments derive from critical-feminist, humanist and ethical perspectives. As a consequence of investigating specific aspects of scientific method, an approach to research that is congruent with values intrinsic to an ho...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Horsfall JM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the Nazi regime (1933-1945), more than 300,000 psychiatric patients were killed. The well-calculated killing of chronic mentally 'ill' patients was part of a huge biopolitical program of well-established scientific, eugenic standards of the time. Among the medical personnel implicated in these assassinations we...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Foth T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has found that family caregivers do not discuss their caregiving in terms of tasks but instead describe their care as shaped by concerns, commitments and goals. The purpose of this paper is to challenge the ways in which nurses approach the family caregiving process and to explore possibilities for evo...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Kellett UM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approaches to self-management traditionally focus upon individual capacity to make behavioural change. In this paper, we use Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and capital to demonstrate the impact of structural inequalities upon chronic illness self-management through exploring findings from 28 semi-structured interviews...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Henderson J,Wilson C,Roberts L,Munt R,Crotty M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analysis was developed as a technique for combining the results of many different quantitative studies: it is often used to produce quantitative estimates of causal relations and/or association between variables. Meta-analysis is sometimes regarded as a central component of evidence-based practice. We draw attent...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Gregson PR,Meal AG,Avis M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines gender-specific transformations of nursing practice in institutional mental health-care in Alberta, Canada, based on archival records on two psychiatric hospitals, Alberta Hospital Ponoka and Alberta Hospital Edmonton, and on oral histories with psychiatric mental health nurses in Alberta. The pape...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Boschma G,Yonge O,Mychajlunow L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of increasing intervention in childbirth, 'normal birth' is currently being promoted by the World Health Organization, national governments, professional bodies and other organisations throughout the world. This paper takes a postmodernist stance and explores the idea of the 'normal' before going on to ana...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Darra S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men played an important role in nursing in colonial Australia. However the number of men undertaking nursing duties declined dramatically in the second half of the nineteenth century. Reasons for this are explored in relation to ramifications of the introduction of the Nightingale pattern of nurse training in Australi...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Barber J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review identified and evaluated instruments measuring patients' perceptions of patient-centred nursing care. Of 2629 studies reviewed, 12 were eligible for inclusion. Four instruments were reported: The Individualized Care Scale, the Client-Centred Care Questionnaire, the Oncology patients' Perceptions...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Köberich S,Farin E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00