To be or not to be? Nurse? Researcher? Or both?
Published in Nursing inquiry
Making a spectacle of herself: reading community mental health nursing assessments.
Published in Nursing inquiry
The metaphor of mapping is used in this paper to examine the discursive construction of women whose nudity in public places (making a spectacle of herself) provides dilemmas for community mental health nurses required to make assessments of these women's ability to function in the community. Excerpts from stories provided by the nurses are used to ...
Florence Nightingale and the women's movement: friend or foe?
Published in Nursing inquiry
The historical analysis of the complex and often contradictory views of Florence Nightingale regarding the rights of women is explored in this paper. Feminism and nursing are often viewed as contradictory and antithetical. The relationship between the two is examined through the link between Florence Nightingale and her contemporary, Barbara Leigh-...
A hermeneutic study of the concept of 'focusing' in critical care nursing practice.
Published in Nursing inquiry
A phenomenological hermeneutic study of the lifeworld of critical care nursing was undertaken, from which emerged the concept of 'focusing'. Focusing is defined as empathizing concern for the critically ill person and his/her family amid the high technology of the intensive care unit. When nurses focus on the patient and the patient's family they a...
Confronting 'reality': nursing, science and the micro-politics of representation.
Published in Nursing inquiry
In an age where previous frames of reference lose their certainty nurses are finding themselves rethinking their relations to the 'real'. In this paper I interrogate an empirical 'text' of a local nursing cultural practice through a poststructural critique of the ways in which language, discourses, representation and experience intersect to constru...
