Understanding the challenges of palliative care in everyday clinical practice: an example from a COPD action research project.

abstract：:In 1997 Amnesty International reported that 115 out of 251 countries surveyed practised torture on their citizens. Many of these victims have been forced to flee their country of origin and become refugees in the West, in countries such as Australia, Canada, the UK and the United States. However, torture itself remain...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Racine-Welch T,Welch M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing and nursing practice both construct and are in turn constructed by the context in which they operate. Texts plays a central part in that construction. As such, nursing and nursing practice can be considered to represent a reality that is textually mediated. This paper explores the notion of nursing as a textua...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Cheek J,Rudge T

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:The paper reveals that historically various socio-political factors, including gender, class, ethnicity, race, waves of colonization, decolonization, the civil and ethnic wars, the women's and labour movements, have influenced the development of nursing in Sri Lanka. However, literature presenting the development of n...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Aluwihare-Samaranayake D,Paul P

更新日期：2013-06-01 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

abstract：:The physical nearness, or proximity, inherent in the nurse-patient relationship has been central in the discipline as definitive of the nature of nursing and its moral ideals. Clearly, this nearness is in service to those in need of care. This proximity, however, is not unproblematic because it contributes to two of t...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Peter E,Liaschenko J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of German physicians propagated 'scientific nursing' in the 1890s in order to establish it as a medical specialty. Martin Mendelsohn (1860-1930) emerged as the figurehead of this movement. One of his earliest key publications on this topic appeared in 1890, with a second edition in 1892. It was entitled The co...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Schweikardt C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of innovation within organizations has been demonstrated on numerous occasions, which has subsequently led to the identification of effective leadership as a potential catalyst. Most of us would acknowledge that effective leadership plays a pivotal role to engender innovativeness among nursing staff. Al...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Masood M,Afsar B

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Reflective practice, as an ideal model, is generally espoused as a developmental process to empower practitioners to achieve and sustain effective practice. Yet when reflective practice is accommodated into the real world of everyday practice can this ideal itself be realised? Or will reflective practice be accommodat...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Johns C

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Although the need to theorize ethics within the complexities of nursing practice has been identified within the nursing literature, to date the link between ethics epistemology and specific nursing actions has received limited attention. In particular, little exploration has been carried out to examine how nurses 'kno...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Doane GH,Storch J,Pauly B

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:A fully integrated and operating EPR in a clinical setting is hard to find: most applications can be found in outpatient or general practice settings or in isolated hospital wards. In clinical work practice problems with the electronic patient record (EPR) are frequent. These problems are at least partially due to the...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Goorman E,Berg M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study directly addresses controlling aspects of psychiatric nursing practice, which are currently marginalized in practice and research. We first consider the discursive tensions surrounding the mandated goal of social control in public acute psychiatric units, particularly referring to those units located within...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Hamilton B,Manias E

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:This study focuses on the meaningful encounters of patients and next of kin, as seen from their perspective. Identifying the attributes within meaningful encounters is important for increased understanding of caring and to expand and develop earlier formulated knowledge about caring relationships. Caring theory about ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Gustafsson LK,Snellma I,Gustafsson C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore what it means to promote healthy sexuality for incarcerated women. We report upon the experiences of ten inmates in the Female Central Penitentiary of Santiago, Chile, regarding their sexuality within prison. We used a qualitative, descriptive research approach. Individual and semistructured interviews were...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Castro Madariaga FA,Gómez Garcés BE,Carrasco Parra A,Foster J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:This study elucidates environmental influences on lived illness experiences. For two consecutive years, persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) participated in 1 week of daily walking in the Swedish mountains. Daily, low-intensive walking that is free of intense effort or time pressures associated with group interaction...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Sunvisson H,Ekman SL

更新日期：2001-03-01 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 Australia, debates over the appropriate length of undergraduate nursing programs have a long history. Submissions from both universities and industry to key government reports have consistently argued that the current minimum entry level of practice, a three-year program, is too short to enable students to gain the...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Kenny A,Carter L,Martin S,Williams S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses the question of normative analysis of the value-based aspects of nursing. In our perspective, values in science may be distinguished into (i) epistemic when related to the goals of truth and objectivity and (ii) non-epistemic when related to social, cultural or political aspects. Furthermore, valu...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Zanotti R,Chiffi D

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Feminist participatory action research integrates feminist theories and participatory action research methods, often with the explicit intention of building community-academic partnerships to create new forms of knowledge to inform women's health. Despite the current pro-partnership agenda in health research and polic...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Ponic P,Reid C,Frisby W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although puppets have been employed by various disciplines in clinical and community (e.g. homes and schools) environments, little has been written about their use as a communication tool in research. In this article, a critical review of the literature is undertaken integrating the use of puppets in a qualitative res...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Epstein I,Stevens B,McKeever P,Baruchel S,Jones H

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For nurses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cleanliness was often seen as a virtue next to godliness. For missionary nurses, this analogy took on multiple meanings. This study focuses on discourses of cleanliness at one site of missionary nursing in the early twentieth century: the Rehoboth Mission and...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Lagerwey MD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Textual portrayals of nursing can be 'read' from a number of possible viewing positions, which play a very real part in the way that our reality is constructed and understood. The image depends on which viewing position is chosen by or constructed for the viewer, and how the viewer interacts with that position. Thus w...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Cheek J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a paper in which I reflect on, and draw issues from, an unplanned ethnographic experience in a London laundromat. The concept of 'everyday life' has a kind of simple, even benign, quality. However, there are many events in everyday life that are complex and complicating. Everyday life can be mundane--boring ev...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Lawler J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing scholars appropriate the analysis of discourse. "Discourse analysis" covers a wide spectrum of approaches to analysing meaning and language and there is no widely accepted definition of either a concept or an analysis of discourse. A sample of the discourse analyses indexed in the CINAHL database was analysed ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Buus N

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00