Gibson, Diane Willis, Eileen Merrick, Eamon Redley, Bernice Bail, Kasia
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Nursing inquiry
This article explores staff work patterns in an Australian residential aged care facility and the implications for high-quality care. Rarely available minute by minute, time and motion, and ethnographic data demonstrate that nurses and care staff engage in high degrees of multitasking and mental switching between residents. Mental switching occurs ...
Birnbaum, Shira
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Nursing inquiry
Social determinants of health are a subject of growing interest, yet criticisms have emerged about the way determinants are conceptualized in nursing. A tendency to focus on readily observable living conditions and measurable demographic characteristics can divert attention, it has been said, from the less visible underlying processes which shape s...
Yıldız, Ayşegül Tuğba Dinc, Leyla
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Nursing inquiry
Nurses are the closest healthcare providers to patients and emotional labor is the most invisible part of nursing work. However, the management of emotions to promote organizational goals and to ensure patient satisfaction may have both positive and negative impacts on nurses' working life. The purpose of this cross-sectional, descriptive study was...
Dolan, Sara Nowell, Lorelli Moules, Nancy J
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Nursing inquiry
As mixed methods research approaches become increasingly more common, it is imperative they are conducted in a thoughtful and rigorous manner to yield useful results. While researchers have begun to explore the use of various qualitative research methodologies in mixed methods research, there is a gap in literature discussing the philosophical cong...
Bokek-Cohen, Ya'arit
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Nursing inquiry
One of the unspoken issues in public discourse in most countries is the racism of patients toward nurses who originate from a different ethnic group than theirs. The aim of the present study is to examine whether patients' racism toward nurses increases as the invasiveness of treatment rises. This study was conducted in Israel, a highly conflictual...
Nye, Caitlin M Canales, Mary K Somayaji, Darryl
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Nursing inquiry
This paper defines and analyzes the processes of "othering" as they manifest in the practice and praxis of nursing education. Othering is bound up in the establishment and reinforcement of norms, and shores up power inequities that negatively impact faculty, students, and patients. While previous analyses have addressed othering in nursing more bro...
Tesseyman, Sheri Peterson, Katelin Beaumont, Emma
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Nursing inquiry
This historical study aims to explain how the transition from student nurse service to fully qualified "graduate nurse" service in the United States in the 20th century affected assumptions about fundamental patient care in hospital wards and provide historical context for current apprenticeship programs. Through analysis of documents from 1920 whe...
Cole, Clare Mummery, Jane Peck, Blake
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Nursing inquiry
One of the most basic understandings of nursing is that a nurse is a caregiver for a patient who helps to prevent illness, treat health conditions, and manage the physical needs of patients. Nursing is often presented as a caring profession, which provides patient care driven by ideals of empathy, compassion and kindness. These ideals of care have ...
Straus, Elizabeth J Brown, Helen Teachman, Gail Howard, Fuchsia
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Nursing inquiry
A goal of living as well as possible is central to practice and research with young adults living with home mechanical ventilation (HMV). Significant effort has been put into conceptualizing and measuring the quality of life (QOL) as a proxy for living well. Yet, dominant understandings of QOL have been influenced by normative, ableist, and biomedi...
Francis-Cracknell, Alison Truong, Mandy Adams, Karen
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Nursing inquiry
Settler colonisation continues to cause much damage across the globe. It has particularly impacted negatively on Indigenous peoples' health and wellbeing causing great inequity. Health professional education is a critical vehicle to assist in addressing this; however, non-Indigenous educators often feel unprepared and lack skill in this regard. In ...
