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Navigating, Negotiating, And Narrating: Re-Envisioning Patient-Centered Chronic Illness Care, Wilma J. Koopman
Navigating, Negotiating, And Narrating: Re-Envisioning Patient-Centered Chronic Illness Care, Wilma J. Koopman
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Patient-centered care (PCC) is ubiquitous in how we think about patient-practitioner encounters. But such a taken-for granted stance may unknowingly obscure how conversations actually unfold in real life. The purpose of this work is to unravel the disconnect between how patient-centered care is talked about and how it is implemented in the real world. The overarching research question that framed this study was: What are the influences that shape the unfolding of the conversations that occur at chronic illness health encounters and how does this unfolding influence the learning and execution of PCC? The aim of this research was …
Patient Roles Within Interprofessional Collaborative Patient-Centred Care Teams: The Patient And Health Care Provider Perspectives, Kateryna Metersky
Patient Roles Within Interprofessional Collaborative Patient-Centred Care Teams: The Patient And Health Care Provider Perspectives, Kateryna Metersky
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With current rapid expansions to medical knowledge and technology and rising chronicity of diseases, health care providers are increasingly called upon to work together within interprofessional teams to provide the most comprehensive care to their patients. Interprofessional teams have been depicted as enhancing patient health outcomes and increasing patient satisfaction with care, while decreasing health care spending and wait times for receiving care. However, there is little evidence on how to collaboratively include patients in these teams. The study’s purpose was to construct a framework on the conditions and processes required for patients to assume active participant roles in their …
Nursing Students' Understanding And Enactment Of Resilience: A Grounded Theory Study, Andrew T. Reyes
Nursing Students' Understanding And Enactment Of Resilience: A Grounded Theory Study, Andrew T. Reyes
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The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students’ understanding and enactment of resilience. Stress is considered to be a major factor affecting the health, well-being, and academic performance of nursing students. Resilience has been extensively researched as a process that allows individuals to successfully adapt to adversity and develop positive outcomes as a result. However, relatively little is known about the resilience of nursing students. A constructivist grounded theory study design was used. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with 38 nursing students enrolled in a four-year, integrated baccalaureate nursing degree program at a university in Ontario, Canada. Face-to-face …