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Rafii F, Nasrabadi AN, Tehrani FJ. The omission of some patterns of knowing in clinical care: A qualitative study. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY RESEARCH 2021; 26:508-514. [PMID: 34900649 PMCID: PMC8607894 DOI: 10.4103/ijnmr.ijnmr_75_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Providing holistic and humanistic care to patients requires a variety of factors. A care solely based on objective knowledge might be unsafe and of low quality. Using the patterns of knowing in an integrated manner and relative to the context of caring is one of the necessities for proving a holistic and efficient nursing care. This study aimed to explore the role of patterns of knowing in the formation of uncaring behaviors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The researchers used a qualitative research design for this study. Participants included 19 clinical nurses who attended semi-structured and in-depth interviews. In addition, theoretical and purposeful sampling methods were used in this research. Observation of caring processes in different hospital wards was another method used for collecting data. The data analysis was carried out according to conventional content analysis technique. RESULTS The study findings revealed five categories for the theme of "omission of some patterns of knowing" including omission of scientific principles, omission of therapeutic relationship, omission of ethics, omission of social justice, and omission of flexibility. CONCLUSIONS The omission of some patterns of knowing creates an ugly image of nursing and a negative outcome of caring as well.
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- Forough Rafii
- Nursing Care Research Centre (NCRC), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical and Surgical, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Nursing Care Research Centre (NCRC), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Burns M, Bally J, Burles M, Holtslander L, Peacock S. Influences of the culture of science on nursing knowledge development: Using conceptual frameworks as nursing philosophy in critical care nursing. Nurs Philos 2020; 21:e12310. [PMID: 32643234 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2019] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nursing knowledge development and application are influenced by numerous factors within the context of science and practice. The prevailing culture of science along with an evolving context of increasingly technological environments and rationalization within health care impacts both the generation of nursing knowledge and the practice of nursing. The effects of the culture of science and the context of nursing practice may negatively impact the structure and application of nursing knowledge, how nurses practice, and how nurses understand the patients and families for whom they care. Specifically, the nature of critical care and its highly technical environment make critical care nursing especially vulnerable to these potentially negative influences. The influences of the culture of science and the increasingly technical practice context may result in an overreliance on the natural sciences to guide critical care nursing actions and an associated marginalization of the caring relationship in critical care nursing practice. Within this environment, nursing philosophy may not be foundational to nursing actions; rather, the dominant culture of science and the rationalization of health care may be informing nursing practice. As such, the ideology and goals of nursing may not be central to the practice of critical care nursing. The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of the culture of science on the development of nursing knowledge and theory. Further, we aim to describe the value of using conceptual frameworks, such as Roy's Adaptation Model, as a nursing philosophy to influence the development of person-centred nursing knowledge and theory to inform critical care nursing practice as it related to the care of patients and families. In doing so, nursing philosophy is situated as foundational for nursing actions.
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- Margie Burns
- College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.,Faculty of Nursing, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
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- College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Thorne S. Rethinking Carper's personal knowing for 21st century nursing. Nurs Philos 2020; 21:e12307. [PMID: 32567117 PMCID: PMC7583479 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In 1978, Barbara Carper named personal knowing as a fundamental way of knowing in our discipline. By that, she meant the discovery of self‐and‐other, arrived at through reflection, synthesis of perceptions and connecting with what is known. Along with empirics, aesthetics and ethics, personal knowing was understood as an essential attribute of nursing knowledge evolution, setting the context for the nurse to become receptively attentive to and engaged within the interpersonal processes of practice. Although much has been done over the 40 years since Carper described these ways of knowing, and we have seen enormous advances in empirics and ethics, and I would argue even in aesthetics (understanding the subtle craft of nursing in action), personal knowing may not have attracted its fair share of critical unpacking. Further, we see increasing evidence of a distortion on how forms of personal knowledge, including beliefs and attitudes, are being taken up within segments of the profession; these include legitimizing idiosyncratic positionings and, most worrisome, challenges to the idea that there are and ought to be fundamental truths within nursing that stand as central to disciplinary knowledge. In this paper, the author reflects on the confusion that a continued uncritical deference to personal knowing may be creating and the evolving interests it seems to serve.
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- Sally Thorne
- School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Kristoffersen M. Thoughts of creation and the discipline of nursing. Nurs Open 2019; 6:566-573. [PMID: 30918707 PMCID: PMC6419134 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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AIM The aim is to highlight thoughts of creation as a significant fundamental of the nursing discipline. This is achieved by exploring thoughts of creation in relation to everyday nursing care. DESIGN This study, based on a hermeneutical approach, provides reused data drawn from a larger Norwegian empirical study. METHOD A second thematic analysis was conducted. Data in the original study consisted of qualitative interviews and qualitative follow-up interviews with 13 nurses. The research context was the primary and secondary somatic and psychiatric health service, inside as well as outside institutions. RESULTS Three themes emerged: (a) Life as greater than a human being; (b) creational powers attributed to the human being; and (c) understanding life as basically good. Thus, thoughts of creation in terms of philosophical underpinnings seem to gain backing from nurses' experiences of everyday nursing care and it can be argued that it adds elements that enrich nursing care.
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- Margareth Kristoffersen
- Department of Care and Ethics, Faculty of Health SciencesUniversity of StavangerStavangerNorway
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Parr Vijinski J, Hirst SP, Goopy S. Nursing and music: Considerations of Nightingale's environmental philosophy and phenomenology. Nurs Philos 2018; 19:e12223. [PMID: 30221451 DOI: 10.1111/nup.12223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A philosophy of nursing is to express our considered opinion on what we believe to be true about the nature of the profession of nursing and provide a basis for nursing activities. It affirms the ethical values that we hold as fundamental to our practice. For many of us in nursing, our philosophy derives from Nightingale and phenomenology. We believe Nightingale and phenomenology are uniquely placed within nursing philosophies, to assist the nurse to understand the use of music within a holistic, caring-healing paradigm, as nursing continues to adapt and evolve in the 21st century. This article proposes that both Nightingale's environmental philosophy and phenomenology are excellent intellectual and practice frameworks for nurses to consider music-based interventions for older adults who experience dementia. The potential outcome is an enhanced understanding of the well-being of this vulnerable group of older persons.
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Engel J, Salfi J, Micsinszki S, Bodnar A. Informed Strangers: Witnessing and Responding to Unethical Care as Student Nurses. Glob Qual Nurs Res 2017; 4:2333393617730208. [PMID: 28932765 PMCID: PMC5600298 DOI: 10.1177/2333393617730208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nursing students occupy a unique perspective in clinical settings because they are informed, through education, about how patient care ought to happen. Given the brevity of placements and their “visiting status” in clinical sites, students are less invested in the ethos of specific sites. Subsequently, their perspectives of quality care are informed by what should happen, which might differ from that of nurses and patients. The purpose of this study was to identify predominant themes in patient care, as experienced by students, and the influence that these observations have on the development of their ethical reasoning. Using a qualitative descriptive approach in which 27 nursing student papers and three follow-up in-depth interviews were analyzed, three main themes emerged: Good employee, poor nurse; damaged care; and negotiating the gap. The analysis of the ethical situations in these papers suggests that students sometimes observe care that lacks concern for the dignity, autonomy, and safety of patients. For these student nurses, this tension led to uncertainty about patient care and their eventual profession.
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- Joyce Engel
- Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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- Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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da Silva R, de Freitas FDS, de Araújo F, Ferreira MDA. A policy analysis of teamwork as a proposal for healthcare humanization: implications for nursing. Int Nurs Rev 2016; 63:572-579. [DOI: 10.1111/inr.12331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- R.N. da Silva
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation - Level 1C; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals; Anna Nery School of Nursing; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation - Level 1C; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals; Anna Nery School of Nursing; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation - Level 1C; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals; Anna Nery School of Nursing; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation - Level 1C; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Nursing Area on Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination/Brazilian Ministry of Education; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Department of Nursing Fundamentals; Anna Nery School of Nursing; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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Cheng WLS. Application of Challenge-Based Learning in nursing education. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY 2016; 44:130-132. [PMID: 27429342 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2015] [Revised: 05/16/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Booth RG, Andrusyszyn MA, Iwasiw C, Donelle L, Compeau D. Actor-Network Theory as a sociotechnical lens to explore the relationship of nurses and technology in practice: methodological considerations for nursing research. Nurs Inq 2015; 23:109-20. [DOI: 10.1111/nin.12118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Richard G. Booth
- Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing; Western University; London ON Canada
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- Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing; Western University; London ON Canada
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- Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing/Health Studies; Western University; London ON Canada
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- Carson College of Business; Washington State University; Pullman WA USA
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