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Promoting Health And Wellness In Australian Church Communities: The Parish Nurses' Lived Experience, Tamera Gosling
Promoting Health And Wellness In Australian Church Communities: The Parish Nurses' Lived Experience, Tamera Gosling
Tamera Gosling
Parish nursing, has emerged in Australia over the last decade with an aim to provide holistic health care to people in church community settings through health education, counselling, referral, support and co-ordination of volunteers. Great value has been placed on the health promotional feature of the parish nurses’ role; however, to this time the experience of promoting health for the parish nurse has remained relatively unexplored. This research presents the results of a qualitative study to explore, identify and describe the lived experience of Australian parish nurses promoting health and wellness in Christian church communities. A phenomenological approach was used …
A Unitary Field Pattern Portrait Of Dispiritedness In Later Life, Howard Butcher
A Unitary Field Pattern Portrait Of Dispiritedness In Later Life, Howard Butcher
Howard K. Butcher
The purpose of this investigation was to enhance theory and understanding of the phenomenon of dispiritedness in later life within the context of Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings using a research method congruent with the ontological and epistemological tenets of Rogers' nursing science. Eleven persons 52 to 92 years of age who identified themselves as being in later life and having experienced dispiritedness participated in a 40 to 70 minute in-depth interview which focused on their experiences, perceptions, and expressions of dispiritedness. A field pattern profile was created for each participant. The unitary field pattern portrait of dispiritedness in …
Narratives Of Family Caregiving: Four Story Types, Lioness Ayres
Narratives Of Family Caregiving: Four Story Types, Lioness Ayres
Lioness Ayres
RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: This study used a combination of across-case, thematic analysis and within-case, narrative analysis to develop a typology of stories for family caregivers. Both researchers and clinicians can benefit from interpretive methods that offer access s into the processes and products of making meaning though stories. It is often easier to see the possibilities for reinterpretation from outside a story than from within it. It may be that nurses will also be uniquely able to help clients who are in the process of "getting the story straight" to find new, more sustaining meanings and even to live more happily ever …
Narratives Of Family Caregiving: The Process Of Making Meaning, Lioness Ayres
Narratives Of Family Caregiving: The Process Of Making Meaning, Lioness Ayres
Lioness Ayres
RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: Further research is clearly indicated to measure, rather than just describe, the components of caregivers' expectations, explanations, and strategies. Such research could identify explanations associated with flexible expectations and successful, good quality strategies, as well as provide clinicians with tools to predict those caregivers at risk for difficulty. Knowledge about caregivers could then be incorporated into interventions for caregivers at risk. Nursing interventions could help caregivers discover new expectations, explain their situations more positively, or find new strategies that both provide more satisfaction and are more consistent with good quality care. Nursing research has particular promise in illuminating this …
Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation In A Critical Care Unit: Existing In An Everyday World, Patricia Johnson, Winsome St John, Wendy Moyle
Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation In A Critical Care Unit: Existing In An Everyday World, Patricia Johnson, Winsome St John, Wendy Moyle
Patricia Johnson
Aim: This paper reports a study to describe and interpret the meaning of being on long-term mechanical ventilation.
Background: Patients who require mechanical ventilation in a critical care unit for prolonged periods of time are typically sicker than those who are ventilated for shorter periods. Despite advances in treatment modalities for critically ill patients, many still require long-term mechanical ventilation for 7 days or more. Therefore, caring for a long-term ventilated patient is often an everyday occurrence for critical care nurses; however, there is insufficient evidence of the meaning of this experience from a patient perspective.
Method: We used an …