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Macabasag RLA, Diño MJS. Understanding the Essence of Caring from the Lived Experiences of Filipino Informatics Nurses. Nurs Sci Q 2018; 31:166-174. [DOI: 10.1177/0894318418755732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Caring is considered a unique concept in nursing because it subsumes all intrinsic attributes of nursing as a human helping discipline. Scholars have argued that caring is usually seen as an encounter between nurses and patients, but how about nurses with minimal or absent nurse-patient encounters, like informatics nurses? In this study, we explored the meaning of the phenomenon of caring to present lived experiences of caring, namely caring as actions of coming in between; caring as expressed within embodied relations; and caring and the path traversed by informatics nurses. The informatics nurse-cyborg-patient triad speaks of Filipino informatics nurses’ insightful understanding of the phenomenon of caring.
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Affiliation(s)
- Romeo Luis A. Macabasag
- Graduate School, College of Nursing, Research Development and Innovation Center, Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City, Philippines
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- Graduate School, College of Nursing, Research Development and Innovation Center, Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City, Philippines
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Chiovitti RF. Theory of protective empowering for balancing patient safety and choices. Nurs Ethics 2011; 18:88-101. [DOI: 10.1177/0969733010386169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Registered nurses in psychiatric-mental health nursing continuously balance the ethical principles of duty to do good (beneficence) and no harm (non-maleficence) with the duty to respect patient choices (autonomy). However, the problem of nurses’ level of control versus patients’ choices remains a challenge. The aim of this article is to discuss how nurses accomplish their simultaneous responsibility for balancing patient safety (beneficence and non-maleficence) with patient choices (autonomy) through the theory of protective empowering. This is done by reflecting on interview excerpts about caring from 17 registered nurses taking part in a grounded theory study conducted in three acute urban psychiatric hospital settings in Canada. The interplay between the protective and empowering dimensions of the theory of protective empowering was found to correspond with international, national, and local nursing codes of ethics and standards. The overall core process of protective empowering, and its associated reflective questions, is offered as a new lens for balancing patient safety with choices.
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Chiovitti RF. Nurses’ meaning of caring with patients in acute psychiatric hospital settings: A grounded theory study. Int J Nurs Stud 2008; 45:203-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2006.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2006] [Revised: 08/24/2006] [Accepted: 08/28/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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