Perspectives on power, communication and the medical encounter: implications for nursing theory and practice.

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：:Until 1929, midwifery in Palestine was relatively open to anyone and only partially regulated by the 1918 Public Health Ordinance, legislated shortly after the beginning of British rule. This article describes the factors that guided the shaping of midwifery and suggests possible sources of inspiration for the British...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Katvan E,Bartal N

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:Modern British nursing developed from the mid-nineteenth century and was seen as a morally purifying activity and as a potential force for social cohesion. It was also considered an activity fit for women. However, it embodied a fundamental tension within Victorian sensibility between a kind of rationalistic utilitari...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Traynor M

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：:The paper presents findings from a study of how older people are assessed and cared for in an acute medical unit. The aim of the study was to reconsider nurses' assessment practices in relation to organisational context. Drawing together ethnographic methods with discourse analysis, the study develops an approach to s...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Latimer J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many men who have sex with men (MSM) express feeling marginalized by discourses within public health and sexual health nursing that determine bareback sex is deviant and unsafe. Their resistance to risk-based discourses can be seen within radical sex practices such as deliberately becoming-infected with HIV (bug-chasi...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Hammond C,Holmes D,Mercier M

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Although there are notable exceptions, examination of nursing's participation in colonizing processes and practices has not taken hold in nursing's consciousness or political agenda. Critical analyses, based on the examination of politics and power of the structural determinants of health, continue to be marginalized ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： McGibbon E,Mulaudzi FM,Didham P,Barton S,Sochan A

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Drawing on a feminist praxis study in which nurses were asked to explore their experiences in caring for people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, cultural frameworks bounded by interconnected markers of race, ethnicity and gender were constructed to analyse the nurses' narrative accounts. The aims ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Blackford J

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：:Prenatal screening can significantly benefit parents and the community. However, it has created a dilemma for women as it requires them to quickly decide whether to continue a pregnancy or terminate it should the test indicate a foetal abnormality. This can be psychologically traumatic for women torn between their con...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Chandler M,Smith A

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:Morbidly obese patients and lifestyle change: constructing ethical selves In contemporary societies, bodily size is an important part of individuals' self-representation. As the number of persons clinically diagnosed as morbidly obese increases, programmes are developed to make people reduce weight by changing their l...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Knutsen IR,Terragni L,Foss C

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:As arduous psychological reactions and loss of control almost inevitably represent a challenge for women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, a participatory intervention study was initiated that aimed to enhance empowerment in breast cancer self-help groups. Women newly diagnosed with breast cancer were invited t...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Stang I,Mittelmark MB

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:This paper is based on a one-year ethnographic study that focused on nurse-patient relationships on a ward where therapeutic nursing and professional autonomy were explicit nursing goals. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, it was found that nurses, as a team, adopted a highly relaxed form ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Savage J

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:Patients who neglect personal hygiene, household cleanliness and their own health are familiar to most nurses. Despite this familiarity, self-neglect is a poorly conceptualized and little researched phenomenon. This multiple case study design uncovers the perceptions of self-neglect held by professionals, patients and...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Lauder W

更新日期：1999-03-01 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