Nursing Practice, Research and Education in the West

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather M. Young ◽  
Susan Bakewell-Sachs ◽  
Linda Sarna
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
The West ◽  
Research And Education

Patient and public involvement in healthcare

2018 ◽  
pp. 613-624
Author(s):  
Maria Flynn ◽  
Dave Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Patient And Public Involvement ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Research And Education

The impulse for patient and public involvement (PPI) in health services reflects wider societal and policy concerns with citizenship and democratic participation. A consumerist turn in health policy has opened the door to advances in involvement initiatives, with nurses often playing a lead role. These involvement practices have developed in the interlinked areas of nursing practice, research, and education. Effective involvement is predicated upon emancipatory values and, as such, involvement practices are concerned with prevailing power relations. The actual form that involvement takes can be thorough, systematic, and empowering or partial, tokenistic, and subsumed under oppressive governance systems. Ultimately, involvement poses key questions for professional nursing identity, allowing for a re-imagining of professionalism that is essentially democratized and cooperative.

scholarly journals The Lived Experience of Discontinuing Hormonal Contraception Among Women in Rural Uganda

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Joseph Mwizerwa, ◽  
Rozzano C. Locsin,
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Hormonal Contraception ◽  
Hormonal Contraceptive ◽  
Unprotected Sex ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Research And Education

The purpose of the study was to describe the experience of discontinuing hormonal contraceptive use among women in rural Uganda. Asignificant number of women in Uganda discontinue hormonal contraception even though such method has been effective. Consequently, these women have unprotected sex, although not wanting to conceive. Narrative descriptions of the experiences by eight women were analyzed using content analysis. The findings describe the experience as Frustration and Helplessness, Living in Fear of Uncertainty, Ingenuity of using other methods of contraception, thus fostering the Accomplishments of being a wife, mother, and woman. Implications for nursing practice, research, and education are described.

scholarly journals Peaceful End of Life Theory: A Critical Analysis of Its Use to Improve Nursing Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-417
Author(s):  
Schadrack Ngabonziza ◽  
Marie Chantal Murekatete ◽  
Gerard Nyiringango ◽  
Sandra Marie Grace Musabwasoni
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Nursing Interventions ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Terminally Ill Patients ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
End Stage

BackgroundProvision of empathetic palliative care in agreement with patient’s favorites is an indispensable attitude of healthcare providers. A Peaceful End of Life Theory was designed by Rulandand Moore (1998),to provide theoretical framework for nurses who care for patients at end stage of their life.MethodsChinn and Kramer theory analysis guideline was used to analyse this theory to suggest its improvement.ResultsFive major concepts and sub-concepts are identified.This theory informs the nursing profession on the relieving interventions at the end of life. It provides a guidance to supportively manage terminally ill patients in collaboration with their families.ConclusionThis theory is important to guide nursing practice,research, and education. However, there is a lack of an instrument to measure the desired outcomes, some subconcepts do not cleary specify the nursing interventions, and it lacks the spiritual comfort to the terminally ill patients who believe in eternal life.Rwanda J Med Health Sci 2021;4(3):412-417

Conscience, conscientious objection, and nursing: A concept analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Lamb ◽  
Marilyn Evans ◽  
Yolanda Babenko-Mould ◽  
Carol A Wong ◽  
Ken W Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Impact

Background: Ethical nursing practice is increasingly challenging, and strategies for addressing ethical dilemmas are needed to support nurses’ ethical care provision. Conscientious objection is one such strategy for addressing nurses’ personal, ethical conflicts, at times associated with conscience. Exploring both conscience and conscientious objection provides understanding regarding their implications for ethical nursing practice, research, and education. Research aim: To analyze the concepts of conscience and conscientious objection in the context of nurses. Design: Concept analysis using the method by Walker and Avant. Research context: Data were retrieved from Philosopher’s Index, PubMed, and CINAHL with no date restrictions. Ethical consideration: This analysis was carried out per established, scientific guidelines. Findings: Ethical concepts are integral to nursing ethics, yet little is known about conscientious objection in relation to conscience for nurses. Of note, both concepts are well established in ethics literature, addressed in various nursing codes of ethics and regulatory bodies, but the meaning they hold for nurses and the impact they have on nursing education and practice remain unclear. Discussion and conclusion: This article discusses the relevance of conscience and conscientious objection to ethical nursing practice and proposes a model case to show how they can be appreciated in the context of nurses. Conscientious objection is an option for ethical transparency for nurses but is situated in contentious discussions over its use and has yet to be fully understood for nursing practice. Conscience is an element in need of more exploration in the context of conscientious objection. Further research is warranted to understand how nurses respond to conscience concerns in morally, pluralistic nursing contexts.

scholarly journals A Synopsis of Ricoeur’s Phenomenology of the Will: Implications for Nursing Practice, Research, and Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wyona M. Freysteinson
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Phenomenological Studies ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Will ◽  
Research And Education

The will is a word that nurses may use to describe their patients’ actions or inactions. This concept has been extensively addressed by religions, psychologists, and philosophers. Ricoeur offered a phenomenology of the will in which three overarching key concepts were uncovered: decision, action, and consent. In this article, Ricoeur’s elaborative and exhaustive description of these three concepts is summarized. Examples as to how a phenomenology of the will may guide nurses in their day-to-day clinical practice in caring are provided. In research, Ricoeur’s phenomenology of the will may be used as a heuristic to guide phenomenological studies. An introduction to the will may act as a bridge between the art and science of nursing, providing nursing students with a greater understanding of the meaning of and need to provide holistic care.

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