A very human being: Sister Marie Simone Roach, 1922 –2016
Sister (Sr.) Marie Simone Roach, of the Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, died at the Motherhouse on 2 July 2016 at the age of 93, leaving behind a rich legacy of theoretical and practical work in the areas of care, caring and nursing ethics. She was a humble soul whose deep and scholarly thinking thrust her onto the global nursing stage where she will forever be tied to a central concept in nursing, caring, through her Six Cs of Caring model. In Canada, she was the lead architect of the Canadian Nurses Association's first code of ethics, and her influence on revisions to it is still profound more than 35 ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Michael J Villeneuve, Verena Tschudin, Janet Storch, Marsha D M Fowler, Elizabeth Peter Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The digital generation and nursing robotics: A netnographic study about nursing care robots posted on social media
The aim of this study was to present the functionality and design of nursing care robots as depicted in pictures posted on social media. A netnographic study was conducted using social media postings over a period of 3 years. One hundred and Seventy‐two images were analyzed using netnographic methodology. The findings show that nursing care robots exist in various designs and functionalities, all with a common denominator of supporting the care of one's own and others’ health and/or well‐being as a main function. The results also show that functionality and design are influenced by recent popular sci‐fi/cartoon co...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Henrik Eriksson, Martin Salzmann ‐Erikson Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
“The Emperor's new clothes”: discourse analysis on how the patient is constructed in the new Swedish Patient Act
This study takes a Foucauldian discourse analysis approach following Willig's analysis guide. The act contains an entitlement discourse for patients and a requirement discourse for healthcare personnel. These two discourses are governed by a values‐based healthcare discourse. Neo‐liberal ideology, in the form of New Public Management discourse, focusing on the value of efficiency and competition, is given a hegemonic position as laws and regulations are used to strengthen it. The new Swedish Patient Act seems to further strengthen this development. The Act underlines the increased entitlement for patients, but it is no...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Elisabeth Dahlborg Lyckhage, Sandra Pennbrant, Åse Boman Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Identification of risk factors for moral distress in nurses: basis for the development of a new assessment tool
This article proposes to identify risk factors for moral distress from the literature, validate them through expert analysis and provide the basis for a new tool to assess the risk of moral distress among nurses. Moral distress is related to the psychological, emotional and physiological aspects of nursing. It arises from constraints caused by various circumstances and can lead to significant negative consequences. A scoping review and validation through expert analysis were used. The research question guiding this study was as follows: What is known about risk factors for moral distress in nursing? The research was conduc...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Rafaela Schaefer, Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli, Margarida Vieira Tags: Review Article Source Type: research
A comparative study of renal care in Brazil and Mexico: hemodialysis treatment from the perspective of ESRD sufferers
This study compares renal care in two developing countries with different health systems. Specifically, it explores hemodialysis treatment from the perspective of low‐income individuals. A qualitative, comparative study was performed in Brazil and Mexico. Using purposive sampling, the research was based on open‐ended interviews with nineteen participants with kidney failure undergoing hemodialysis treatment in public hospitals and ten relatives. According to our results, Brazilian participants perceived hemodialysis care as satisfactory because of health personnel courtesy as well as free access to dialysis treatment, ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Francisco J. Mercado ‐Martinez, Denise Guerreiro V. da Silva, Mauricio E. Correa‐Mauricio Tags: Feature Source Type: research
“I would have preferred more options”: accounting for non‐binary youth in health research
As a research team focused on vulnerable youth, we increasingly need to find ways to acknowledge non‐binary genders in health research. Youth have become more vocal about expanding notions of gender beyond traditional categories of boy/man and girl/woman. Integrating non‐binary identities into established research processes is a complex undertaking in a culture that often assumes gender is a binary variable. In this article, we present the challenges at every stage of the research process and questions we have asked ourselves to consider non‐binary genders in our work. As researchers, how do we interrogate the assump...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: H élène Frohard‐Dourlent, Sarah Dobson, Beth A. Clark, Marion Doull, Elizabeth M. Saewyc Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Factors influencing the decision to comply with nurse recommendations to take or avoid influenza vaccination
Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Although vaccination is an efficient means of prevention, low rates of vaccination are reported periodically. The study aimed to examine factors affecting acceptance of nurses' recommendations to take or avoid influenza vaccination. Study design was quasi‐experimental with a 2 × 2 between subjects design: two variables were manipulated and two were not. The research variables were expertise (of nurses and respondents), type of recommendation (to vaccinate or not) and respondents' a‐priori intention to vaccinate. Data were collected from 374 respondents. The stud...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Yoram Bar ‐Tal, Sivia Barnoy Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Structural impact on gendered expectations and exemptions for family caregivers in hospice palliative home care
Evidence of gender differences in the amount and type of care provided by family caregivers in hospice palliative home care suggests potential inequities in health and health care experiences. As part of a larger critical ethnographic study examining gender relations among clients with cancer, their family caregivers and primary nurses, this article describes gendered expectations and exemptions for family caregivers within the sociopolitical context of end‐of‐life at home. Data were collected from in‐depth interviews (n = 25), observations of agency home care visits (n = 9) and analyses of policy and home care a...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Nisha Sutherland, Catherine Ward ‐Griffin, Carol McWilliam, Kelli Stajduhar Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Delegation and supervision of healthcare assistants ’ work in the daily management of uncertain and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses
The invisibility of nursing work has been discussed in the international literature but not in relation to learning clinical skills. Evans and Guile's (Practice‐based education: Perspectives and strategies, Rotterdam: Sense, 2012) theory of recontextualisation is used to explore the ways in which invisible or unplanned and unrecognised learning takes place as newly qualified nurses learn to delegate to and supervise the work of the healthcare assistant. In the British context, delegation and supervision are thought of as skills which are learnt “on the job.” We suggest that learning “on‐the‐job” is the invisi...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 31, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Helen T. Allan, Carin Magnusson, Karen Evans, Elaine Ball, Sue Westwood, Kathy Curtis, Khim Horton, Martin Johnson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Neoliberalism and the government of nursing through competency ‐based education
This article examines the development of the competency‐based movement with a particular focus on the significance it has had for nursing education. Our hypothesis is that the competency movement can only adequately be understood if it is analyzed in relation to the broad societal transformation of the last decades—often summarized under the catchword neoliberalism—and with it the emergence of managerial models for Human Resource Management (HRM) for the reorganization of social services. Classical professions, which were characterized under welfarism by an esoteric knowledge based on ethical norms, have now become m...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 30, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Thomas Foth, Dave Holmes Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Intersections of the arts and nursing knowledge
The arts and nursing are profoundly connected. While the relationship between nursing and art has persisted over time, the majority of nursing scholarship on the arts has historically centered upon the art of nursing practice and the cultivation and application of aesthetic knowing. However, there is a burgeoning use of arts‐based strategies is nursing education, research, and practice. Correspondingly, there is a need to understand how such approaches can uniquely contribute knowledge to the nursing discipline in order to support arts‐integration for nursing scholars. We structure our inquiry into arts’ contribution...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 29, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Mandy M. Archibald, Vera Caine, Shannon D. Scott Tags: Feature Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 25, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Infromation Source Type: research
The impact of rationing of health resources on capacity of Australian public sector nurses to deliver nursing care after ‐hours: a qualitative study
This study explores the impact of rationing of staffing and other resources upon delivery of care outside of business hours. Data was collected through semistructured interviews conducted with 21 nurses working in 2 large Australian metropolitan hospitals. Participants identified four strategies associated with NPM which add to workload after‐hours and impacted on the capacity to deliver nursing care. These were functional flexibility, vertical substitution of staff, meeting externally established performance indicators and outsourcing. We conclude that cost containment alongside of the meeting of performance indicators ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 21, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Henderson, Eileen Willis, Luisa Toffoli, Patricia Hamilton, Ian Blackman Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Factors influencing intention to help and helping behaviour in witnesses of bullying in nursing settings
This study shows that witnesses of bullying in nursing settings do not remain impassive, but their experienced discomfort and intention to help victims is not sufficient to predict helping behaviour. Fear of possible retaliation if intervening in favour of victims constitutes a crucial factor explaining witnesses’ hesitation to help victims. Several implications for the implementation of policies directed at eradicating bullying in nursing settings are discussed. (Source: Nursing Inquiry)
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 21, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Carmen B áez‐León, Bernardo Moreno‐Jiménez, Aldo Aguirre‐Camacho, Ricardo Olmos Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Using holistic interpretive synthesis to create practice ‐relevant guidance for person‐centred fundamental care delivered by nurses
This study describes a novel methodological approach, called holistic interpretive synthesis (HIS), for interpreting empirical research findings to create practice‐relevant recommendations for nurses. Using HIS, umbrella review findings on the nurse–patient relationship are interpreted through the lens of the Fundamentals of Care Framework. The recommendations for the nurse–patient relationship created through this approach can be used by nurses to establish, maintain and evaluate therapeutic relationships with patients to deliver person‐centred fundamental care. Future research should evaluate the validity and imp...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 21, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebecca Feo, Tiffany Conroy, Rhianon J. Marshall, Philippa Rasmussen, Richard Wiechula, Alison L Kitson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
