A normative analysis of nursing knowledge
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, values can be called constitutive when necessary for a scientific enterprise, or contextual when contingently associated with science. Analysis of the roles of the various forms of values and models of knowledge translation provides the ground to understand the specific role of values in nursing. A conceptual ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - June 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Renzo Zanotti, Daniele Chiffi Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The practice of nursing research: getting ready for ‘ethics’ and the matter of character
Few would argue with the idea that nursing research should be conducted ethically yet obtaining ethical approval is considered by many to have become unnecessarily burdensome. This brief article investigates the idea that there might be a relationship between the level of perceived burdensomeness of the research ethics application process on the one hand and the character of the nurse‐researcher on the other. Given that nurses are required to be other‐regarding, a nurse who undertakes research primarily for self‐regarding reasons would seem to be acting in ways inconsistent with the aims of nursing as set out in nurs...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - June 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Derek Sellman Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The impact of economic recession on health‐care and the contribution by nurses to promote individuals' dignity
The health sector is facing many challenges, and there is a need to maintain the delivery of high‐quality health‐care. Issues related to equity and access to health‐care have emerged in a context of an economic recession in which the sustainability of the health system depends on everyone, including the actions and decisions of professionals. Therefore, nurses and their skills may be the answer to ethical, professional and community health management, but this recession could lead to major problems in the education of nurses in daily health‐care practice. Due to the limited availability of resources, nurses are inc...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - June 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Sofia Nunes, Guilhermina Rego, Rui Nunes Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Working in a ‘third space’: a closer look at the hybridity, identity and agency of nurse practitioners
This article utilizes postcolonial theory, as articulated by Homi Bhabha, to examine and challenge traditional ideologies and structures that have shaped the development, implementation and integration of the NP role to this day. Specifically, we utilize Bhabha's concepts of third space, hybridity, identity and agency in order to further conceptualize the nurse practitioner role, to examine how the role challenges some of the inherent assumptions within the healthcare system and to explore how development of each to these concepts may prove useful in integration of nurse practitioners within the healthcare system. Our anal...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - June 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Teresa Chulach, Marilou Gagnon Tags: Feature Source Type: research
British Icons and Catholic perfidy – Anglo‐Saxon historiography and the battle for Crimean war nursing
Taking as its starting point Carr's view that historical narrative reflects the preoccupations of the time in which it is written and Foucault's concept of consensual historical discourse as the outcome of a social struggle in which the victor suppresses or at least diminishes contrary versions of historical events in favour of their own, this paper traces and discusses the historical narrative of British nursing in the Crimean war and, in particular, three competing narratives that have arisen in the latter half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. These are the established narrative surrounding Florence ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - May 16, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: John S G Wells, Michael Bergin Tags: Feature Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - May 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Rethinking agency and medical adherence technology: applying Actor Network Theory to the case study of Digital Pills
Much literature surrounding medical technology and adherence posits that technology is a mechanism for social control. This assumes that the medical establishment can take away patients' agency. Although power relationships and social control can play a key role, medical technology can also serve as an agentive tool to be utilized. We (1) offer the alternative framework of Actor Network Theory to view medical technology, (2) discuss the literature on medication adherence and technology, (3) delve into the ramifications of looking at adherence as a network and (4) use Digital Pills as a case study of dispersed agency. (Source: Nursing Inquiry)
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Alejandra Hurtado‐de‐Mendoza, Mark L Cabling, Vanessa B Sheppard Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Finding a language of engagement
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Sally Thorne Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Almutairi's Critical Cultural Competence model for a multicultural healthcare environment
The increasing demographic changes of populations in many countries require an approach for managing the complexity of sociocultural differences. Such an approach could help healthcare organizations to address healthcare disparities and inequities, and promote cultural safety for healthcare providers and patients alike. Almutairi's critical cultural competence (CCC) is a comprehensive approach that holds great promise for managing difficulties arising from sociocultural and linguistic issues during cross‐cultural interactions. CCC has addressed the limitations of many other cultural competence approaches that have been d...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Adel F Almutairi, V Susan Dahinten, Patricia Rodney Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Disclosing discourses: biomedical and hospitality discourses in patient education materials
Patient education materials have the potential to strengthen the health literacy of patients. Previous studies indicate that readability and suitability may be improved. The aim of this study was to explore and analyze discourses inherent in patient education materials since analysis of discourses could illuminate values and norms inherent in them. Clinics in Sweden that provided colorectal cancer surgery allowed access to written information and ‘welcome letters’ sent to patients. The material was analysed by means of discourse analysis, embedded in Derrida's approach of deconstruction. The analysis revealed a biomedi...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Stina Öresland, Febe Friberg, Sylvia Määttä, Joakim Öhlen Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The myth of the miracle baby: how neonatal nurses interpret media accounts of babies of extreme prematurity
Improved life sustaining technology in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has resulted in an increased probability of survival in extremely premature babies. Miracle baby stories in the popular press are a regular occurrence and these reports are often the first source from which the general public learn about extremely premature babies. The research from which this paper is drawn sought to explore the care‐giving and ethical dilemmas of neonatal nurses when caring for extremely premature babies 24 weeks gestation and less. This current paper aims to outline the views of neonatal nurses on miracle baby stories in t...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Janet Green, Philip Darbyshire, Anne Adams, Debra Jackson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Nursing researchers’ modifications of Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology
Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology has proved to be very helpful in guiding nursing researchers’ qualitative analysis of interview transcripts. Modifying Ricoeur's philosophy, a number of nursing researchers have developed their own interpretive methods and shared them, along with their experience, with research community. Major contributors who published papers directly presenting their modifications of Ricoeur's theory include Rene Geanellos (2000), Lena Wiklund, Lisbet Lindholm and Unni Å. Lindström (2002), Anders Lindseth and Astrid Norberg (2004) and Pia Sander Dreyer and Birthe D Pedersen (2009). The aim of...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Pagorn Singsuriya Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Cultural safety, diversity and the servicer user and carer movement in mental health research
This study will be of interest to anyone concerned with a critical appraisal of mental health service users’ and carers’ participation in research collaboration and with the potential of the postcolonial paradigm of cultural safety to contribute to the service user research (SUR) movement. The history and nature of the mental health field and its relationship to colonial processes provokes a consideration of whether cultural safety could focus attention on diversity, power imbalance, cultural dominance and structural inequality, identified as barriers and tensions in SUR. We consider these issues in the context of stat...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Leonie G. Cox, Alan Simpson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Foucault's notion of problematization – a methodological discussion of the application of Foucault's later work to nursing research
This study takes its point of departure in an oft‐voiced critique that the French philosopher Michel Foucault gives discourse priority over practice, thereby being deterministic and leaving little space for the individual to act as an agent. Based on an interpretation of the latter part of Foucault's oeuvre, we argue against this critique and provide a methodological discussion of the perception that Foucault's method constitutes, primarily, discourse analysis. We argue that it is possible to overcome this critique of Foucault's work by the application of methodological tools adapted from Foucault's later writings and hi...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 26, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Kirsten Frederiksen, Kirsten Lomborg, Kirsten Beedholm Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Foucault's notion of problematization: a methodological discussion of the application of Foucault's later work to nursing research
This study takes its point of departure in an oft‐voiced critique that the French philosopher Michel Foucault gives discourse priority over practice, thereby being deterministic and leaving little space for the individual to act as an agent. Based on an interpretation of the latter part of Foucault's oeuvre, we argue against this critique and provide a methodological discussion of the perception that Foucault's method constitutes, primarily, discourse analysis. We argue that it is possible to overcome this critique of Foucault's work by the application of methodological tools adapted from Foucault's later writings and hi...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 25, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Kirsten Frederiksen, Kirsten Lomborg, Kirsten Beedholm Tags: Feature Source Type: research
