Using anthropology to analyse healthcare situations.

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：: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：: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：: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：:Phenomenology is a well-founded qualitative methodology that is frequently used by nurse researchers and considered of value when addressing research questions in nursing practice and nurse education. However, at present, nurse researchers using phenomenology tend to divide phenomenological methodology into the descri...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Rapport F,Wainwright P

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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 focuses on the patient's perspective and the philosophical underpinnings that support what might be considered optimal for the future design of the intensive care unit (ICU) patient room. It also addresses the question of whether the aspects that support at-homeness are applicable to ICU patient rooms. The ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Andersson M,Fridh I,Lindahl B

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：: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：:In this study, we demonstrate how perceptions of nursing are constructed in close connection with the development of the Nordic welfare states. Drawing on Gillian Rose's framework for analysing the social and political implications of visual materials, we analysed selected visual representations of nursing published i...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Ravn IM,Beedholm K,Frederiksen K,Kvangarsnes M,Foss IC,Knutsen IR

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Understanding between care providers and patients with stroke and aphasia: a phenomenological hermeneutic inquiry The present study illuminates the understanding in communication between formal care providers and patients with stroke and aphasia. Five care providers and three such patients participated in the study. V...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Sundin K,Jansson L,Norberg A

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:A central purpose is to examine the kind of knowledge that patient experience represents; its origin, properties and tenability. We will use the term insider knowledge to designate the knowledge, beliefs and viewpoints constructed by patients about their own illnesses and predicaments more generally. It is our content...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Strøm A,Kvernbekk T,Fagermoen MS

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:The aim of this paper is discussion of a new middle-range theory of patient safety goal priming via safety culture communication. Bedside nurses are key to safe care, but there is little theory about how organizations can influence nursing behavior through safety culture to improve patient safety outcomes. We theorize...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Groves PS,Bunch JL

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses the notion of wound care as a technology of skin and other skins imbued with the combined power of technology and science. It presents the discourses of wound care evident in the accounts of patients and nurses concerning this care, and discussions about wounds in wound care interest groups, journ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Rudge T

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：:This paper examines narrative approaches to care within the context of dementia. It reviews the function of stories and explores some of the narrative genres that shape the cultural perceptions of dementia. We argue that narrative intelligence within healthcare is an important element in nurturing communal self-identi...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Witham G,Haigh C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern Western societies are characterized by a considerable cultural and ethnic diversity whereby different groups and minorities live side by side. However, not all people are viewed in the same light by the autochthonous population. This is particularly true in the case of Muslim immigrants, who are often prone to ...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： González-Pascual JL,Esteban-Gonzalo L,Rodríguez-García M,Gómez-Cantarino S,Moreno-Preciado M

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：: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