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：: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 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：:Eco-wellness nursing represents a creative, challenging and empowering approach for facilitating a sustainable future for people and their environments, focusing beyond positivistic explanations and solutions, towards a more emancipating eco-centric praxis. Underlying this approach are the principles of 'wellness', 'h...

journal_title：Nursing inquiry

authors： Avery A

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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