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Exploring the dark side of informal mentoring: Experiences of nurses and midwives working in hospital settings in Uganda Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Tracy Alexis Kakyo, Lily Dongxia Xiao, Diane Chamberlain
Mentoring literature explores the dark side of mentoring as factors such as gender and race and how they affect the overall mentoring experience. The sociocultural context of the nursing and midwifery professions presents unique characteristics warranting a qualitative exploration of negative mentoring experiences. We aimed to characterise the dark side of mentoring based on informal mentoring relationships
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Advancing health equity in prelicensure nursing curricula: Findings from a critical review Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Anna Graefe, Christine Mueller, Linda Bane Frizzell, Carolyn M. Porta
Nurses play a crucial role in reducing health disparities and advancing health equity for individuals and communities. The future nursing workforce relies on their nursing education to prepare them to promote health equity. Nursing educators prepare students through a variety of andragogical learning strategies in the classroom and in clinical experiences and by intentionally updating and revising
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Examining and mitigating racism in nursing using the socio‐ecological model Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Iheduru‐Anderson Kechi, Roberta Waite, Teri A. Murray
Racism in nursing is multifaceted, ranging from internalized racism and interpersonal racism to institutional and systemic (or structural) elements that perpetuate inequities in the nursing profession. Employing the socio‐ecological model, this study dissects the underlying challenges across various levels and proposes targeted mitigation strategies to foster an inclusive and equitable environment
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Exploring self‐care practices and health beliefs among men in the context of emerging infectious diseases: Lessons from the Mpox pandemic in Brazil Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Carolina da Silva Bulcão, Pedro E. G. Prates, Iago M. B. Pedrosa, Guilherme R. de Santana Santos, Layze B. de Oliveira, Jhonata de Souza Joaquim, Lilian C. G. de Almeida, Caíque J. N. Ribeiro, Glauber W. dos Santos Silva, Felipe A. Machuca‐Contreras, Anderson R. de Sousa, Isabel A. C. Mendes, Álvaro F. L. de Sousa
Our goal was to explore self‐care practices among men who have sex with men in the context of Mpox in Brazil. This study used qualitative research methods, including interviews and thematic analysis, to collect and analyze data from male participants across the Brazilian territory. The narratives unveil men's perspectives on self‐care, risk reduction, and health beliefs during the Mpox pandemic. Our
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On empty, redundant or pointless systematic reviews Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sally Thorne
In this editorial, I reflect on the question of the conditions under which a systematic review makes an original and relevant scholarly contribution to the literature. Like many nursing journal editors, I see many submissions based on various kinds of systematic reviews (scoping reviews, meta-synthesis studies, bibliometric analyses, etc). Each positions itself as an original piece of scholarly work
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“There is nothing to protect us from dying”: Black women's perceived sense of safety accessing pregnancy and intrapartum care Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Priscilla N. Boakye, Nadia Prendergast
Pregnancy and childbirth have become a dangerous journey for Black women as harrowing stories of death and near‐death experiences resonate within Black communities. While the causes of pregnancy‐related morbidity and mortality are well documented, little is known about how Black Canadian women feel protected from undesirable maternal health outcomes when accessing and receiving pregnancy and intrapartum
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How much do we know about nursing care delivery models in a hospital setting? A mapping review Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Klara Geltmeyer, Kristof Eeckloo, Laurence Dehennin, Emma De Meester, Sigrid De Meyer, Eva Pape, Margot Vanmeenen, Veerle Duprez, Simon Malfait
To deal with the upcoming challenges and complexity of the nursing profession, it is deemed important to reflect on our current organization of care. However, before starting to rethink the organization of nursing care, an overview of important elements concerning nursing care organization, more specifically nursing models, is necessary. The aim of this study was to conduct a mapping review, accompanied
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From plaster casts to picket lines: Public support for industrial action in the National Health Service in England Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Martin Ejnar Hansen, Steven David Pickering
This paper explores public sentiment towards strike action among healthcare workers, as a result of their perceived inadequate pay. By analysing survey data collected in England between 2022 and 2023, the study focuses on NHS nurses and junior doctors, due to their critical role in delivering essential public services. Results indicate higher public support for strikes by nurses and junior doctors
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Finding meaning in complex care nursing in a hospital setting Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Felice Borghmans, Stella Laletas, Venesser Fernandes, Harvey Newnham
This study explores the experiences of nurses that provide ‘complex’, generalist healthcare in hospital settings. Complex care is described as care for patients experiencing acute issues additional to multimorbidity, ageing or psychosocial complexity. Nurses are the largest professional group of frontline healthcare workers and patients experiencing chronic conditions are overrepresented in acute care
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Toward diverse SOGIESC‐transformative theorizing in nursing: A revisitation and expansion of Im and Meleis' guidelines for gender‐sensitive theorizing Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Jerome Visperas Cleofas
Over two decades have passed since Im and Meleis proposed “gender‐sensitive theories” as a category of nursing theories in 2001. Since then, the global conditions of women and minoritized identities across the various spectra of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sexual characteristics (SOGIESC) have changed. Moreover, feminist theorizing has evolved, prompting the need to update
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The emergence of cultural safety within kidney care for Indigenous Peoples in Australia Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Melissa Arnold‐Ujvari, Elizabeth Rix, Janet Kelly
Cultural safety is increasingly recognised as imperative to delivering accessible and acceptable healthcare for First Nations Peoples within Australia and in similar colonised countries. A literature review undertaken to inform the inaugural Caring for Australians with Renal Insufficiency (CARI) guidelines for clinically and culturally safe kidney care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
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Five pathways into one profession: Fifty years of debate on differentiated nursing practice Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hugo Schalkwijk, Martijn Felder, Pieterbas Lalleman, Manon S. Parry, Lisette Schoonhoven, Iris Wallenburg
The persistence of multiple educational pathways into the nursing profession continues to occupy scholars internationally. In the Netherlands, various groups within the Dutch healthcare sector have tried to differentiate nursing practice on the basis of educational backgrounds for over 50 years. Proponents argue that such reforms are needed to retain bachelor‐trained nurses, improve quality of care
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Standards of proficiency for registered nurses—To what end? A critical analysis of contemporary mental health nursing within the United Kingdom context Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Oladayo Bifarin, Freya Collier‐Sewell, Grahame Smith, Jo Moriarty, Han Shephard, Lauren Andrews, Sam Pearson, Mari Kasperska
Against the backdrop of cultural and political ideals, this article highlights both the significance of mental health nursing in meeting population needs and the regulatory barriers that may be impeding its ability to adequately do so. Specifically, we consider how ambiguous notions of ‘proficiency’ in nurse education—prescribed by the regulator—impact the development of future mental health nurses
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How can strategies based on performance measurement and feedback support changes in nursing practice? A theoretical reflection drawing on Habermas' social perspective Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Emilie Dufour, Arnaud Duhoux
Strategies based on performance measurement and feedback are commonly used to support quality improvement among nurses. These strategies require practice change, which, for nurses, rely to a large extent on their capacity to coordinate with each other effectively. However, the levers for coordinated action are difficult to mobilize. This discussion paper offers a theoretical reflection on the challenges
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Supporting each other towards independence: A narrative analysis of first-year nursing students' collaborative process Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Marie Stenberg, Mariette Bengtsson, Elisabeth Mangrio, Elisabeth Carlson
Collaboration for nursing is a core competence and therefore educational interventions are essentials for collaborative skills. To identify such interventions, we carried out a study to understand nursing students' collaborative process. A narrative inquiry method was used to explore the collaborative process of first-year undergraduate nursing students. The analysis was conducted on field notes from
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A suffering body, hidden away from others: The experience of being long-term bedridden with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in childhood and adolescence Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Silje Helen Krabbe, Wenche Schrøder Bjorbækmo, Anne Marit Mengshoel, Unni Sveen, Karen Synne Groven
In this article, we present findings from a qualitative study examining how young women experience being long-term bedridden with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), during childhood and adolescence. The aim is to explore how young women who fell ill with ME/CFS during childhood and adolescence look back on their lived experience of being long-term bedridden
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Exploring that which lies beyond nursing's historic humanist preoccupation Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Sally Thorne
Critical posthumanism, or the deconstruction of humanism (Herbrechter, 2017), has become an important project in the social sciences and humanities, and more recently in applied fields such as nursing (Aranda, 2019). We are therefore excited to be bringing this special Nursing Inquiry issue on Critical Posthumanism to press. Over recent years, nurse scholars have been experimenting with what our disciplinary
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Can professional nursing value claims be refused? Might nursing values be accepted provisionally and tentatively? Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Martin Lipscomb
Value–act relationships are less secure than is commonly supposed and this insecurity is leveraged to address two questions. First, can nurses refuse professional value claims (e.g., claims regarding care and compassion)? Second, even when value claims are accepted, might values be held provisionally and tentatively? These questions may seem absurd. Nurses deliver care and nursing is, we are told,
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Deconstructing spiritual care: Discursive underpinnings within palliative care research Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Emma Lundberg, Joakim Öhlén, Lisen Dellenborg, Anneli Ozanne, Daniel Enstedt
Religion and spirituality are integral to the philosophy of palliative care, shaping its approach to spiritual care. This article aims to examine the discourses within palliative care research to illuminate prevailing assumptions regarding spiritual care. Eighteen original articles were analyzed to examine how spiritual care is understood within palliative care. The analysis, informed by Foucault,
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ChatGPT answers a frequently asked question about nursing: What it is and what it is not Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Matteo Danielis, Renzo Zanotti
1 INTRODUCTION ChatGPT is designed to generate human-like text and communicate with users in natural language (Dale, 2021). It can quickly search vast amounts of health literature to provide researchers (and students) with pertinent data on specific topics and help them keep up with the latest findings. ChatGPT is useful for clarifying theories and concepts by extracting relevant data from research
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Marginalization and women's healthcare in Ghana: Incorporating colonial origins, unveiling women's knowledge, and empowering voices Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Eunice Bawafaa
The origins of marginalization in nursing and the health sector in Ghana can be traced to colonialism and how a colonial era laid a solid foundation for inequities and entrenched disparities, as well as the subsequent normalization of marginalizing acts, in the health sector, particularly for women. Drawing upon varied literature over a 60-year period and perspectives from feminist theory, this paper
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Vanishing academics: On the importance of speed and becoming-imperceptible Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes
Under the influence of neoliberalism, academic work faces mounting pressure to align with imperatives of visibility and perceptibility. Traditionally criticised for working in isolated ‘ivory towers’, academics are now compelled to showcase the societal value of their work through performance metrics and evaluations. Paradoxically, these efforts have unintentionally led to the rigidification and commodification
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Extending the methodology of critical discourse analysis using Haraway's figurations: The example of The Monstrous Perpetrator within contemporary responses to child neglect and abuse Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Rochelle Einboden, Colleen Varcoe, Trudy Rudge
Critical discursive analyses offer possibilities for equity-oriented research, and are a resource for addressing resistant social problems, such as child neglect and abuse (CN&A). A key challenge for discourse analysts in health disciplines is the tensions between materiality and social constructions, particularly at the site of the body. This paper describes how Donna Haraway's ideas of figuration
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Board talk: How members of executive hospital boards influence the positioning of nursing in crisis through talk Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Arjan Verhoeven, Henri Marres, Erik van de Loo, Pieterbas Lalleman
Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning of nurses. Talk is a relational leadership practice. Using a qualitative-interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein members of executive hospital boards (7), nurses (14), physicians (7), and managers (6), from 15 Dutch hospitals, discussed the organizational positioning of nursing during COVID crisis
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Decolonisation for health: A lifelong process of unlearning for Australian white nurse educators Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Elizabeth Rix, Frances Doran, Beth Wrigley, Darlene Rotumah
Indigenous nurse scholars across nations colonised by Europeans articulate the need for accomplices (as opposed to mere performative allies) to work alongside them and support their ongoing struggle for health equity and respect and to prioritise and promote culturally safe healthcare. Although cultural safety is now being mandated in nursing codes of practice as a strategy to address racism in healthcare
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Policy education in a research-focused doctoral nursing program: Power as knowing participation in change Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Donna J. Perry, Saisha Cintron, Pamela J. Grace, Dorothy A. Jones, Anne T. Kane, Heather M. Kennedy, Violet M. Malinski, William Mar, Lauri Toohey
Nurses have moral obligations incurred by membership in the profession to participate knowingly in health policy advocacy. Many barriers have historically hindered nurses from realizing their potential to advance health policy. The contemporary political context sets additional challenges to policy work due to polarization and conflict. Nursing education can help nurses recognize their role in advancing
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“I feel broken”: Chronicling burnout, mental health, and the limits of individual resilience in nursing Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Chaman Akoo, Kimberly McMillan, Sheri Price, Kenchera Ingraham, Abby Ayoub, Shamel Rolle Sands, Mylène Shankland, Ivy Bourgeault
Healthcare systems and health professionals are facing a litany of stressors that have been compounded by the pandemic, and consequently, this has further perpetuated suboptimal mental health and burnout in nursing. The purpose of this paper is to report select findings from a larger, national study exploring gendered experiences of mental health, leave of absence (LOA), and return to work from the
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An analysis of time conceptualisations and good care in an acute hospital setting Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Jan Dewar, Catherine Cook, Elizabeth Smythe, Deborah Spence
This study articulates the relationship between conceptualisations of time and the accounts of good care in an acute setting. Neoliberal healthcare services, with their focus on efficiencies, predominantly calculate quality care based on time-on-the-clock workforce management planning systems. However, the ways staff conceptualise and then relate to diverse meanings of time have implications for good
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Stephen Stephen, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
1 INTRODUCTION Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis
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Beyond the insider/outsider debate in “at-home” ethnographies: Diffractive methodology and the onto-epistemic entanglement of knowledge production Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Trine S. Larsen, Nete Schwennesen
In this article, we discuss the practice of conducting research in one's own field, in this case, from a position as a researcher with a nursing background doing fieldwork in a hospital and in one's own organization, an orthopedic surgical department. We show how an “insider” researcher position paves the way for analytical insights about sleep as an institutional phenomenon in the orthopedic surgical
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On the misguided search for a definition of nursing Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Sally Thorne
From time to time, nursing schools, organizations, and associations embark on an attempt to define nursing as a way to make it better understood by their constituents and those with whom they interact. This seems like a reasonable thing to do until you enter that rabbit hole and think critically about the implications of what you are attempting. Perhaps a bit of historical reflection can shine sufficient
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The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity-oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Sonya Sharma
Although spiritual practices such as prayer are engaged by many to support well-being and coping, little research has addressed nurses and prayer, whether for themselves or facilitating patients' use of prayer. We conducted a qualitative study to explore how prayer (as a proxy for spirituality and religion) is manifest—whether embraced, tolerated, or resisted—in healthcare, and how institutional and
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Anti-Black racism: Gaining insight into the experiences of Black nurses in Canada Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Nadia Prendergast, Priscilla Boakye, Annette Bailey, Honour Igwenagu, Tahja Burnett-Ffrench
The call to address anti-Black racism in workplaces resonates across several organizations and institutions in Canada. But specifically, the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic shed further light on how health inequities negatively impact the Black community. After conducting a literature review of the experiences of Black nurses in Canada, a deeper understanding of their plight was gained. In healthcare
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Why and how is photovoice used as a decolonising method for health research with Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada? A scoping review Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Rebecca Vining, Mairéad Finn
Globally, including in North America, Indigenous populations have poorer health than non-Indigenous populations. This health disparity results from inequality and marginalisation associated with colonialism. Photovoice is a community-based participatory research method that amplifies the voices of research participants. Why and how photovoice has been used as a decolonising method for addressing Indigenous
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Globalization: Migrant nurses' acculturation and their healthcare encounters as consumers of healthcare Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Cheryl Zlotnick, Harshida Patel, Parveen Azam Ali, Temitayo Odewusi, Marie-Louise Luiking
Globally, one of every eight nurses is a migrant, but few studies have focused on the healthcare experiences of migrant nurses (MNs) as consumers or recipients of healthcare. We address this gap by examining MNs and their acculturation, barriers to healthcare access, and perceptions of healthcare encounters as consumers. For this mixed-methods study, a convenience sample of MNs working in Europe and
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Thinking through critical posthumanism: Nursing as political and affirmative becoming Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Annie-Claude Laurin, Patrick Martin
As a rejection and continuous reframing of theoretical humanism, critical posthumanism questions and imagines the human condition in the current context, aligning it with nonhuman and more than human entities, past and future. While this philosophical approach has been referenced in many academic disciplines since the 1990s, it has been gradually garnering interest among nursing scholars, leading to
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Socialisation of children to nurse and nursing images: A Goffman-inspired thematic analysis of children's picture books in a Swedish context Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Stinne Glasdam, Hongxuan Xu, Sigrid Stjernswärd
Picture books are often part of children's socialisation processes, contributing to the children forming images of the world, including ideas about (categories of) people, such as nurses. The study aims to explore how nurses/nursing are portrayed in children's picture books in a Swedish context. Through a systematic search, 44 books were included for analysis using thematic analysis and a theoretical
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‘They tried to evil me’: An explanatory model for Black Africans' mental health challenges Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Isaac Tuffour
This paper explores the explanatory models of mental challenges among Black Africans in England. It argues that understanding these models is critical for providing culturally appropriate care to this population. The study employed qualitative methodology, and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Twelve mental health service users who are living in England and self-identified as first or
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Vaccinating without complete willingness against COVID-19: Personal and social aspects of Israeli nursing students and faculty members Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Linoy Biton, Rachel Shvartsur, Keren Grinberg, Ilya Kagan, Irena Linetsky, Ofra Halperin, Abed N. Azab, Odeya Cohen
Soon after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, it became clear that vaccination will be the most useful tool to combat the disease. Despite the apparent safety and efficacy of the developed anti-COVID-19 vaccines, relatively high percentages of the population worldwide refused to get vaccinated, including many health workers and health students. The present cross-sectional study
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Toward an ontology of the mutant in the health sciences: Re/defining the person from Cronenberg's perspective Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Dave Holmes, Pier-Luc Turcotte, Simon Adam, Jim Johansson, Lauren Orser
Traditional health sciences (including nursing) paradigms, conceptual models, and theories have relied heavily upon notions of the ‘person’ or ‘patient’ that are deeply rooted in humanistic principles. Our intention here, as a collective academic assemblage, is to question taken-for-granted definitions and assumptions of the ‘person’ from a critical posthumanist perspective. To do so, the cinematic
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Social media opposition to the 2022/2023 UK nurse strikes Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Erika Kalocsányiová, Ryan Essex, Sorcha A. Brophy, Veena Sriram
Previous research has established that the success of strikes, and social movements more broadly, depends on their ability to garner support from the public. However, there is scant published research investigating the response of the public to strike action by healthcare workers. In this study, we address this gap through a study of public responses to UK nursing strikes in 2022–2023, using a data
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Work engagement, psychological empowerment and relational coordination in long-term care: A mixed-method examination of nurses' perceptions and experiences Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Helen Rawson, Sarah Davies, Cherene Ockerby, Ruby Pipson, Ruth Peters, Elizabeth Manias, Bernice Redley
Nurse engagement, empowerment and strong relationships among staff, residents and families, are essential to attract and retain a suitably qualified and skilled nursing workforce for safe, quality care. There is, however, limited research that explores engagement, empowerment and relational coordination in long-term care (LTC). Nurses from an older persons’ mental health and dementia LTC unit in Australia
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Decolonial, intersectional pedagogies in Canadian Nursing and Medical Education Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Taqdir K. Bhandal, Annette J. Browne, Cash Ahenakew, Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham
Our intention is to contribute to the development of Canadian Nursing and Medical Education (NursMed) and efforts to redress deepening, intersecting health and social inequities. This paper addresses the following two research questions: (1) What are the ways in which Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies can inform Canadian NursMed Education with a focus on critically examining settler-colonialism
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Socialized to care: Nursing student experiences with faculty, preceptors, and patients Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Paula Hopeck
Effective socialization of nurses has led to positive outcomes for both hospitals and nurses, including higher retention and greater job satisfaction. The importance of faculty, preceptors, and patients in the socialization of nursing students has been documented extensively in the literature. The research presented in this article examines data from qualitative, longitudinal interview transcripts
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On the bullshitisation of mental health nursing: A reluctant work rant Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Mick McKeown
This discussion paper offers a critical provocation to my mental health nursing colleagues. Drawing upon David Graeber's account of bullshit work, work that is increasingly meaningless for workers, I pose the question: Is mental health nursing a bullshit job? Ever-increasing time spent on record keeping as opposed to direct care appears to represent a Graeberian bullshitisation of mental health nurses'
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When nursing education becomes political: Norm-critical perspectives in a campus-based clinical learning environment Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ivan Andrés Castillo, Ellinor Tengelin, Susanna H. Arveklev, Elisabeth Dahlborg
Nursing education is in the process of incorporating critical thinking, social justice, and health inequality perspectives into educational structures, aspiring to help nursing students develop into professional nurses prepared to provide equal care. Norm criticism is a pedagogical philosophy that promotes social justice. This qualitative case study aimed to gain an understanding of and elaborate on
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Parental agency in pediatric palliative care Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Marta Szabat
The study discusses a new approach to parental agency in pediatric palliative care based on an active form of caregiving. It also explores the possibility of a positive conceptualization of parental agency in its relational context. The paper begins with an illustrative case study based on a clinical situation. This is followed by an analysis of various aspects of parental agency based on empirical
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The discourse of delivering person-centred nursing care before, and during, the COVID-19 pandemic: Care as collateral damage Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Amy-Louise Byrne, Clare Harvey, Adele Baldwin
The global COVID-19 pandemic challenged the world—how it functions, how people move in the social worlds and how government/government services and people interact. Health services, operating under the principles of new public management, have undertaken rapid changes to service delivery and models of care. What has become apparent is the mechanisms within which contemporary health services operate
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The influences of sociocultural norms on women's decision to disclose intimate partner violence: Integrative review Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Ayşe Güler, Rebecca C. Lee, Liliana Rojas-Guyler, Joshua Lambert, Carolyn R. Smith
Sociocultural norms against women can contribute to promoting intimate partner violence (IPV) and shape women's decision to disclose IPV. A cross-cultural analysis of the existing literature is needed to present an overview of the influences of sociocultural norms on women's decisions regarding the disclosure of IPV across different cultural contexts. The purpose of the review was to synthesize published
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Technology: A metaparadigm concept of nursing Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Jonathan Bayuo, Hammoda Abu-Odah, Jing Jing Su, Lydia Aziato
Undoubtedly, technology continues to permeate the world at an unprecedented pace. The discipline of nursing is not alien to this phenomenon as nurses continue to employ various technological objects and applications in clinical practice, education, administration and research. Despite the centrality of technology in nursing, it has not been recognised as a metaparadigm domain of interest in the discipline
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Nurses' lived experience of peacebuilding Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Brenda J. Srof, Mary Lagerwey, Joe Liechty
Nursing has a unique opportunity to address issues of structural violence that contribute to poor health outcomes. Models for designing nursing care relative to the social determinants of health can be adapted from the discipline of peace studies and the phenomenon of peacebuilding. The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the lived experience of peacebuilding from the perspective of community
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Sharing the space of the creature: Intersubjectivity as a lens toward mutual human–wildlife dignity Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Donna J. Perry
Human–wildlife coexistence is critical for sustainable and healthy ecosystems as well as to prevent human and wildlife suffering. In this paper, an intersubjective approach to human–wildlife interactions is proposed as a lens toward human decentering and emergent mutual evolution. The thesis is developed through a secondary data analysis of a research study on wildlife care and philosophical analysis
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Two-Eyed Seeing as a strategic dichotomy for decolonial nursing knowledge development and practice Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Alysha McFadden, M. Judith Lynam, Lorelei Hawkins
The profession of nursing has recognized the need for contextual and relational frameworks to inform knowledge development. Two-Eyed Seeing is a framework developed by Mi'kmaw Elders to respectfully engage with Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledges. Some scholars and practitioners, however, are concerned that Two-Eyed Seeing re-instantiates dichotomized notions regarding Western and Indigenous knowledges
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Voiceless and vulnerable: An existential phenomenology of the patient experience in 21st century British hospitals Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Sarah M. Ramsey, Jane Brooks, Michelle Briggs, Christine E. Hallett
Current health policy, high-profile failures and increased media scrutiny have led to a significant focus on patient experience in Britain's National Health Service (NHS). Patient experience data is typically gathered through surveys of satisfaction. The study aimed to support a better understanding of the patient experience and patients' expression of it through consideration of the aspects of the
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Exploring intersectoral collaboration in diabetes care: A positioning theoretical perspective Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anne Bendix Andersen, Kirsten Frederiksen, Henrik Sehested Laursen, Janni Dahlgaard Gravesen
Intersectoral collaboration (IC) plays a significant role in the delivery of diabetes care and treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes (DM2), as the treatment and care of these patients take place in both primary care and specialist settings. The collaboration involves a large number of actors from primary and secondary healthcare sectors, who are expected to fulfil various roles when they engage
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Nurses' ways of talking about their experiences of (in)justice in healthcare organizations: Locating the use of language as a means of analysis Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Camelia López-Deflory, Amélie Perron, Margalida Miró-Bonet
Nurses have their own ways of talking about their experiences of injustice in healthcare organizations. The aim of this article is to describe how nurses talk about their work-life experiences and discuss the discursive effects that arise from nurses' use of language regarding their political agency. To this end, we present the findings garnered from a study focused on exploring how nurses deploy their
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Influence of single-room accommodation on nursing care: A realistic evaluation Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Susanne Friis Søndergaard, Anne Bendix Andersen, Raymond Kolbæk, Kirsten Beedholm, Kirsten Frederiksen
Nowadays, it is common that newly built hospitals are designed with single-room accommodation, unlike in the past, where shared accommodation was the favoured standard. Despite this change in hospital design, very little is known about how single-room accommodation affects nurses' work environment and nursing care. This study evaluates how the single-room design affects nurses and nursing care in the
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When to err is inhuman: An examination of the influence of artificial intelligence-driven nursing care on patient safety Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Elizabeth A. Johnson, Katherine M. Dudding, Jane M. Carrington
Artificial intelligence, as a nonhuman entity, is increasingly used to inform, direct, or supplant nursing care and clinical decision-making. The boundaries between human- and nonhuman-driven nursing care are blurred with the advent of sensors, wearables, camera devices, and humanoid robots at such an accelerated pace that the critical evaluation of its influence on patient safety has not been fully
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Communicative action, a path through the dissonance between nursing and corporate healthcare values Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Julia Buss, Darrell Arnold
There is tension in the US healthcare system due to conflicting goals of maximizing the public's health and at the same time ensuring shareholder profit among the many private organizations that provide care to those in need. As a result, nurses (often the frontline workers in this mixed public/private and economized system) may experience dissonance between their professional values and the capitalistic
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The potential influence of critical pedagogy on nursing praxis: Tools for disrupting stigma and discrimination within the profession Nurs. Inq. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Claire F. Pitcher, Annette J. Browne
Nursing work centers around attending to a person's health during many of life's most vulnerable moments, from birth to death. Given the high-stakes nature of this work, it is essential for nurses to critically reflect on their individual and collective impact, which can range from healing to harmful. The purpose of this paper is to use a philosophical inquiry approach and a critical lens to explore