Host and guest: an applied hermeneutic study of mental health nurses' practices on inpatient units
The metaphor of host and guest has value for exploring the practice and role identity of nurses on inpatient mental health units. Two complementary texts, one from the ancient Zen record of Lin‐chi, and the other from the contemporary hermeneutic philosopher Richard Kearney, are used to elaborate meanings of host and guest that can be applied to the situation of mental health nurses. In a doctoral study with a hermeneutic design, I addressed the topic of nurse–patient relationship using an interpretive framework that included sources from Buddhist thought. The positions of host and guest emerged from interviews with nu...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - March 1, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Graham McCaffrey Tags: Feature Source Type: research
What constitutes core disciplinary knowledge?
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 16, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Sally Thorne Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - February 16, 2014 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Nursing under the skin: a netnographic study of metaphors and meanings in nursing tattoos
The aims of this study were to present themes in nursing motifs as depicted in tattoos and to describe how it reflects upon nursing in popular culture as well as within professional nursing culture. An archival and cross‐sectional observational study was conducted online to search for images of nursing tattoos that were freely available, by utilizing the netnographic methodology. The 400 images were analyzed in a process that consisted of four analytical steps focusing on metaphors and meanings in the tattoos. The findings present four themes: angels of mercy and domination; hegemonic nursing technology; embodying the co...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - January 28, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Henrik Eriksson, Mats Christiansen, Jessica Holmgren, Annica Engström, Martin Salzmann‐Erikson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The future in the past: Hildegard Peplau and interpersonal relations in nursing
Researchers, educators and clinicians have long recognized the profound influence of the mid‐twentieth century focus on interpersonal relations and relationships on nursing. Today, in nursing, as well as in medicine and other social sciences, neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology have replaced interpersonal dynamics as keys to understanding human behavior. Yet concerns are being raised that the teaching, research and practice of the critical importance of healing relationships have been overridden by a biological focus on the experiences of health and illness. As a way to move forward, we return to Hildegard Pep...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - January 28, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Patricia D'Antonio, Linda Beeber, Grayce Sills, Madeline Naegle Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Journey to become a nurse leader mentor: past, present and future influences
Mentorship, often viewed as a central capacity of leadership, is acknowledged as influential in growing nurse leaders. Mentoring relationships are perceived as empowering connections offering a dynamic guided experience to promote growth and development in personal and professional life. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach informed by Heidegger and Gadamer was used to explore understandings and experiences of mentorship for nurse leadership by 13 Australian nurse leaders. We found that learning and transformation associated with becoming a nurse leader mentor was experienced as an enduring evolutionary process. Partici...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 26, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Andrea McCloughen, Louise O'Brien, Debra Jackson Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The archaeology and genealogy of mentorship in English nursing
In the United Kingdom, the concept of mentorship has been central to nurse education since the 1980s. Mentorship has become the definitive term used to denote the supervisory relationship of the student nurse with a qualified nurse who monitors and evaluates their skill development in the clinical area. The background against which the concept was established is examined through a consideration of the concepts of archaeology of knowledge and genealogy of knowledge as conceptualised by Michel Foucault. In particular, the Foucauldian concepts of power, discourses and the gaze are used to direct and shape the analysis. The pa...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 13, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: John Fulton Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Bourdieu at the bedside: briefing parents in a pediatric hospital
The philosophy of family‐centered care (FCC) promotes partnerships between families and staff to plan, deliver, and evaluate services for children and has been officially adopted by a majority of pediatric hospitals throughout North America. However, studies indicated that many parents have continued to be dissatisfied with their decision‐making roles in their child's care. This is particularly salient for parents of children with chronic ongoing complex health problems. These children are dependent upon medical technology and require frequent hospitalizations during which parents must contribute to difficult decisions...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 1, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Karen LeGrow, Ellen Hodnett, Robyn Stremler, Patricia McKeever, Eyal Cohen Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Solving the obesity epidemic: voices from the community
Science and Community: Ending Obesity Improving Health (S&C) aimed to reduce obesity in Houston by developing community partnerships to identify research priorities and develop a sustainable obesity reduction program. Partnership members were recruited from S&C events and invited to participate in in‐depth interviews to gain insight into obesity prevalence, causes, and solutions. Members (n = 22) completed a 60–90‐min in‐depth interview. The interview guide consisted of 30 questions about pressing health problems in the community, potential solutions to health problems and obesity and how the environment ...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 1, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Scherezade K. Mama, Erica G. Soltero, Tracey A. Ledoux, Martina R. Gallagher, Rebecca E. Lee Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Resisting, reproducing, resigned? Low‐income pregnant women's discursive constructions and experiences of health and weight gain
In this article, we use qualitative methodology to explore how 15 low‐income women of diverse sociocultural location construct and experience health and weight gain during pregnancy, as well as how they position themselves in relation to messages pertaining to weight gain, femininity and motherhood that they encounter in their lives. Discussing the findings through a feminist poststructuralist lens, we conclude that the participants are complex, fragmented subjects, interpellated by multiple and at times conflicting subject positions. While the discourse of maternal responsibility (i.e. managing personal behaviours for t...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - December 1, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Shannon Jette, Geneviève Rail Tags: Feature Source Type: research
The scholarship of intellectual generosity
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - November 13, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Sally Thorne Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - November 13, 2013 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Exploring risk in professional nursing practice: an analysis of work refusal and professional risk
This article explores risk in professional nursing practice. Professional risk refers to the threat of professional discipline if it is found that a registered nurse has violated professional nursing practice standards. We argue professional risk is socially constructed and understood differently by nurse regulatory bodies, unions, professional associations and frontline nurses. Regulatory bodies emphasize professional accountability of nurses; professional associations focus on system problems in health‐care; unions undertake protecting nurses' right to health and safety; and frontline nurses experience fear and uncerta...
Source: Nursing Inquiry - September 1, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Barbara A Beardwood, Jan M Kainer Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Tightening the reins on nursing practice
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 15, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Trudy Rudge, Sally Thorne Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Inquiry - August 15, 2013 Category: Nursing Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
