Patterns of knowledge used by nurses in caring for the patient in the first psychotic outbreak

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Aesthetics in Nursing Practice Among Hospitalized Cancer Patients in Nepal

Background: Aesthetics is the art of nursing that is expressive, subjective, and visible in the act of caring in nursing practice. Aesthetics in nursing practice satisfies holistic needs and achieves the quality of whole-person care. Purpose: The aim of this study is to describe the meanings of the lived experiences of cancer patients in terms of receiving care from the perspective of aesthetics in nursing practice. Methods: The hermeneutic phenomenological approach grounded on Gadamerian philosophy guided this study. Eleven Nepalese cancer patients who met the inclusion criteria shared their experiences through graphic illustrations (drawings) and interviews. Data were analyzed and interpreted following van Manen's phenomenological approach reflective of the four life worlds. The trustworthiness of findings was established following the criteria by Lincoln and Guba. Results: Thematic categories of the lived experience of cancer patients were revealed, reflecting the four life worlds: lived relation expressed as being nurtured as a family; lived space as appreciating the healing space; lived time as being hopeful; and lived body as receiving a new life. This experience was described as experiencing self and other while appreciating the healing space, being hopeful and nurtured as family and having a new life Implications for Practice: Aesthetics in nursing practice values on politely nurturing cancer patients as nurses' family members in a pleasant healing environment. Further, cancer patients experience having a new life.

Challenges of nursing care in psychosocial rehabilitation: a study from the constructionist perspective

OBJECTIVE

To identify the nursing staff's difficulties in providing care in psychosocial rehabilitation to CAPS users.

METHODS

Qualitative study based on constructionism. Sixteen members of the CAPS nursing staff participated in the study in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The data collected in the interviews and observations were organized in Nvivo software and analyzed based on thematic content.

RESULTS

The difficulties identified were: the territorial violence that imposes a silence to the actions of CAPS, low user education as a barrier to protagonism, impaired family adhesion, the technical-conceptual discomfort of nursing in acting in the crisis and material and human of CAPS dismantlement.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS

The challenges consist of overcoming staff exhaustion; however, they do not prevent nursing from betting on the possibility of protagonist care. Therefore, such care is dimensioned by the clinical-political-ethical relation in constant negotiation with the territory.