Politics of change: the discourses that inform organizational change and their capacity to silence
Changes in healthcare organizations are inevitable and occurring at unprecedented rates. Such changes greatly impact nurses and their work, yet these experiences are rarely explored. Organizational change discourses remain grounded in perspectives that explore and explain systems, often not the people within them. Change processes in healthcare organizations informed by such organizational discourses validate only certain perspectives and forms of knowledge. This fosters exclusionary practices, limiting the capacity of certain individuals or groups of individuals to effectively contribute to change discourses and processes...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 29, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Kim McMillan Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The emancipatory potential of nursing practice in relation to sexuality: a systematic literature review of nursing research 2009–2014
Nurses play a key role in the provision of services in relation to sexuality in both primary and sexual and reproductive health‐care. Given the intersection of sexualities with a range of social injustices, this study reviews research on nursing practice concerning sexuality from an emancipatory/social justice perspective. A systematic review of English articles published in nursing journals appearing on the Web of Science database from 2009 to 2014 was conducted. Thirty‐eight articles met the inclusion criteria. Analysis consisted of a descriptive phase (types and location of studies, aspects of sexualities focused on...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 29, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Catriona Macleod, Mercy Nhamo‐Murire Tags: Review Source Type: research
There be dragons: effects of unexplored religion on nurses’ competence in spiritual care
On ancient maps unexplored lands were simply labeled ‘there be dragons’ indicating the fear that attends the unknown. Despite three decades of theoretical and empirical work on spirituality in nursing, evidence still suggests that nurses do not feel competent to engage in spiritual care. In this paper I propose that one of the reasons for this is a theory–theory gap between religion and spirituality. Generalized anxiety about the role of religion in society has led to under‐theorizing in nursing about religious care. As a result, when religion and spirituality overlap at the point of care, nurses are left without t...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 29, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Barbara Pesut Tags: Feature Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 9, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
The Dog that Didn't Bark in the Night‐Time
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 2, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Sally Thorne Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Political representation for social justice in nursing: lessons learned from participant research with destitute asylum seekers in the UK
The concept of social justice is making a revival in nursing scholarship, in part in response to widening health inequalities and inequities in high‐income countries. In particular, critical nurse scholars have sought to develop participatory research methods using peer researchers to represent the ‘voice’ of people who are living in marginalized spaces in society. The aim of this paper is to report on the experiences of nurse and peer researchers as part of a project to explore the experiences of people who find themselves destitute following the asylum process in the UK. In seeking to explore social injustice, thre...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 1, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Fiona Cuthill Tags: Feature Source Type: research
New risks: the intended and unintended effects of mental health reform
In crisis situations, the authority of the nurse is legitimised by legal powers and professional knowledge. Crisis stakeholders include those who directly use services and their families, and a wide range of health, social service and justice agencies. Alternative strategies such as therapeutic risk taking from the perspective of socially inclusive recovery policy coexist in a sometimes uneasy relationship with mental health legislation. A critical discourse analysis was undertaken to examine mental health policies and guidelines, and we interviewed service users, families, nurses and the police about experiences of access...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 1, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Stacey C Wilson, Jenny Carryer, Tula Brannelly Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Are senior nurses on Clinical Commissioning Groups in England inadvertently supporting the devaluation of their profession?: A critical integrative review of the literature
In this study, we discuss the role of senior nurses who sit on clinical commissioning groups that now plan and procure most health services in England. These nurses are expected to bring a nursing view to all aspects of clinical commissioning group business. The role is a senior level appointment and requires experience of strategic commissioning. However, little is known about how nurses function in these roles. Following Barrientos' methodology, published policy and literature were analysed to investigate these roles and National Health Service England's claim that nursing can influence and advance a nursing perspective ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 1, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Helen Therese Allan, Roz Dixon, Gay Lee, Michael O'Driscoll, Jan Savage, Christine Tapson Tags: Review Source Type: research
Problematising the problem: a critical interpretive review of the literature pertaining to older people with cognitive impairment who fall while hospitalised
This article presents a reflexive account by way of a critical interpretive review of the literature pertaining to falls of older people with cognitive impairment who have been hospitalised in an acute care setting. A key aim of this review was to use thematic analysis and problematisation to challenge assumptions underpinning the current falls literature and to bring into consideration alternate foci of research and new approaches to falls research. An innovative approach is used to generate descriptive and interpretive summaries of the literature which are presented graphically to reveal the prevailing themes and assumpt...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Carole Rushton Tags: Feature Source Type: research
User participation in district psychiatry. The social construction of ‘users’ in handovers and meetings
An ideal in mental health care is user participation. This implies inclusion and facilitation by clinicians to enable users to participate in decisions about themselves and in the design of suitable treatment. However, much of the work of clinicians consists of handovers and other meetings where patients are not present. It is therefore interesting to study how the patient perspective is handled in such meetings and whether it forms a basis for user participation. We conducted fieldwork in three different inpatient wards in Norwegian District Psychiatric Centres. We used an interactional perspective in our analysis, where ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Vår Mathisen, Aud Obstfelder, Geir F. Lorem, Per Måseide Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Space invaders – A netnographic study of how artefacts in nursing home environments exercise disciplining structures
This study aims to present culturally situated artefacts as depicted in nursing home environments and to analyse the underlying understandings of disciplining structures that are manifested in these kinds of places. Our personal geographies are often taken for granted, but when moving to a nursing home, geographies are glaringly rearranged. The study design is archival and cross‐sectional observational, and the data are comprised of 38 photographs and 13 videos showing environments from nursing homes. The analysis was inspired by the methodological steps in Roper's and Shapira's description of conducting ethnography. The...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Martin Salzmann‐Erikson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Does nursing represent a unique angle of vision? If so, what is it?
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - November 19, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Sally Thorne Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - November 19, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Actor ‐Network Theory as a sociotechnical lens to explore the relationship of nurses and technology in practice: methodological considerations for nursing research
This study will describe Actor‐Network Theory and provide methodological considerations for researchers who are interested in using this sociotechnical lens within nursing and informatics‐related research. Considerations related to technology conceptualization, levels of analysis, and sampling procedures in Actor‐Network Theory based research are addressed. Finally, implications for future nursing research within complex environments are highlighted. (Source: Nursing Inquiry)
Source: Nursing Inquiry - November 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Richard G. Booth, Mary ‐Anne Andrusyszyn, Carroll Iwasiw, Lorie Donelle, Deborah Compeau Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Actor‐Network Theory as a sociotechnical lens to explore the relationship of nurses and technology in practice: methodological considerations for nursing research
This study will describe Actor‐Network Theory and provide methodological considerations for researchers who are interested in using this sociotechnical lens within nursing and informatics‐related research. Considerations related to technology conceptualization, levels of analysis, and sampling procedures in Actor‐Network Theory based research are addressed. Finally, implications for future nursing research within complex environments are highlighted. (Source: Nursing Inquiry)
Source: Nursing Inquiry - September 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Richard G. Booth, Mary‐Anne Andrusyszyn, Carroll Iwasiw, Lorie Donelle, Deborah Compeau Tags: Feature Source Type: research
