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Construction of a Theoretical Model of Chronic Disease Self-Management: Self-Management Within a Syndemic. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Julie Zuñiga,Whitney Thurman,Chelsi West Ohueri,Emma Cho,Praise Chineyemba,C Andrew Martin,William Christopher Mathews,Katerina Christopoulos,Thibaut Davy-Mendez,Alexandra A García
The purpose of this article is to describe a model of chronic disease self-management that incorporates the complexity of social and environmental interactions experienced by people who self-manage chronic conditions. This study combines quantitative data from a large national research cohort and qualitative interviews to test and refine a self-management model. The self-management within a syndemic
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Rogers' Principle of Integrality: An Evolving Inquiry. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Mary Jane Smith
Rogers' principle of integrality was examined using quantitative methodology by the author in 1986. Since then, Rogers made revisions changing from probability and multidimensionality to unpredictability and pandimensionality. Another look at integrality through a lens congruent with the revisions was designed. A descriptive approach, storying the lived experience of making a significant life change
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Science of Unitary Human Beings: Toward Anti-racist Actions for Human Environment Wellbecoming. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce,Jane Hopkins-Walsh
Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB) and several theories that emanate from Rogers' work contain foundational concepts that may lend themselves toward nursing actions to address important social justice mandates, to advocate and to act for equity, and to uproot systems of oppression and racism in nursing. However, at the same time, theoretical concepts such as power arising from ascendant
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Aesthetics in Nursing Practice as Experienced by Children During Hospitalization in Philippines: A Phenomenological Study. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Waraporn Kongsuwan,Barbara Galvez,Feni Betriana
This study aimed to describe the meaning of aesthetics in nursing practice as experienced by children during hospitalization. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used. Fifteen children who met the inclusion criteria participated in the study conducted from June to August 2021. Data were collected by drawing and interviewing. Kongsuwan's approach was used to analyze the data. Six thematic categories
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Nursing in the Contemporary Interdisciplinary World. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Eun-Ok Im
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Current Status of Translational Science in Nursing Across Four Countries. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Hsiu-Min Tsai,Hsiu-Hung Wang,Reiko Sakashita,Eui Geum Oh,Ching-Min Chen,Eun-Ok Im
The raison d'être of nursing is caring for human beings. Mainly due to its close link to the nursing discipline's raison d'être, "caring," translational science is recently getting more attention from nursing scientists across the globe. This paper is to discuss the current status of translational science in nursing across four countries (the USA, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan). The data used in this
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Evolution of the Language in the Science of Unitary Human Beings. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jacqueline Fawcett,Martha Raile Alligood
This article presents a discussion of the evolution of the language of the Science of Unitary Human Beings from the terms used by Martha Rogers in her 1970 book to changes in terms Rogers introduced in her publications over the ensuing years to new terms and language offered by Rogerian scholars before and after Rogers' death in 1994. The article follows from Rogers' insistence that the language of
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"We're Not Valued, We're Not Heard": Voices of Seasoned Nurses in a Rural State Following the Onset of COVID-19. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Kessa V Tribby,Mary J Isaacson
The COVID-19 crisis shone a spotlight on long-standing issues in the nursing profession. Currently, nurses feel overworked, unsupported, and undervalued. This interpretive phenomenological study shares the perspectives of 10 seasoned nurses. The overarching theme is "My job doesn't love me back," supported by "Enough pizza already," "Band-Aid on a hemorrhage," "We were heroes and now no one remembers
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Development of a Situation-Specific Theory for the Transition of Survivors of Stroke With Dysphagia. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Kenji Awamura,Reiko Sakashita
The process by which stroke survivors move toward health while facing various difficulties can be construed as a "transition." Importantly, nurses need to understand and support this state of transition effectively. This study developed a situation-specific theory to explain post-stroke transition by integrating the findings of a qualitative study that explored the rehabilitation experiences of stroke
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Mystery and Miracle in Nursing: A Preliminary Unitary Appreciative Inquiry. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 William Richard Cowling
This study of mystery and miracles in nursing offers a unique perspective in examning and understanding these phenomena grounded in a unitary science framework and guided by unitary appreciative inquiry. It examined 6 years of postings from an online course that gave nurses globally the opportunity to describe and elaborate upon experiences of mystery and miracles in their professional and personal
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Application of Within-Methods Triangulation to Analyze Hospital System Health. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Angela C Brittain,Jane M Carrington
Qualitative descriptive research can be used when researchers are seeking to find the "how," "what," or "when" of phenomena. The most common qualitative descriptive analysis methods are content and thematic analyses. Data triangulation through content analysis and natural language processing was first described in 2018 for the analysis of nurse-to-nurse communication in an acute care setting. The purpose
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Health Information Technology and Innovation in Nursing Knowledge Generation. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-02
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A Theory of Transitions Influencing Diabetes Self-management Among Emerging Adults With Type 1 Diabetes. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Kathleen M Hanna,Zeinab Alazri,Christine M Eisenhauer
Emerging adults with type 1 diabetes are experiencing numerous transitions, potentially affecting diabetes self-management. For example, when transitioning to college, these emerging adults may experience changes in their daily routines and usual reminders or triggers for habitual behavior such as checking blood glucose levels. In turn, these emerging adults may omit checking glucose levels, impacting
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"We Come From Different Worlds": The Collision of Caring and Carceral Institutions. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Danisha Jenkins,Candace Burton,Dave Holmes
The purpose of this study was to give voice to the lived experiences of nurses and law enforcement officers whose professional responsibilities converge in the acute care setting, while gaining insight into the perspectives and interpretations of their experiences. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, this quality study contributes to a growing body of literature exploring the influence
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The Uncertainty in Family Caregivers of Hospitalized Persons With a Stroke in Saudi Arabia: Unitary Caring Perspective. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Seham Alselami,Howard K Butcher,Joy Longo
Uncertainty is a universal experience of family caregivers caring for persons with a stroke and affects caregivers' readiness to care for their family members with a stroke. Guided by the unitary caring theory and unitary-caring hermeneutic-phenomenological research method, this study was conducted among 15 family caregivers of persons in the hospital who have survived strokes through in-depth semi-structured
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Themes of Liminality: Stories From Cancer Family Caregiver Narratives. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Charlotte R Weiss,Rachel Johnson-Koenke,Sean M Reed,Danny G Willis,Karen H Sousa
Cancer family caregivers dwell in an evolving landscape of ambiguity and in-betweenness, as "betwixt and between," in a space of unknowing. This space of unknowing exists within a transformational threshold of liminality, between what was known prior to the cancer and what will be known and embodied in the future. Theoretically grounded in Unitary Caring Science, this study used narrative inquiry alongside
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From Subversion to Hard-Wiring Equity: A Discourse Analysis of Nurses' Equity-Promoting Practices in Emergency Departments. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Allie Slemon,Vicky Bungay,Colleen Varcoe,Amélie Blanchet Garneau
Nursing has articulated a shared commitment to equity in response to inequities in health and health care; however, understandings of how nurses enact equity are needed to uphold this professional mandate. This Foucauldian discourse analysis examined how nurses' equity-promoting practices are shaped by dominant discourses within the emergency department and illustrated that within this institutional
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Bedside Politics and Precarious Care: New Directions of Inquiry in Critical Nursing Studies. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Martijn Felder,Jitse Schuurmans,Nienke van Pijkeren,Syb Kuijper,Roland Bal,Iris Wallenburg
Health care systems are facing soaring workforce shortages, challenging their ability to secure timely access to good-quality care. In this context, nurses make difficult decisions about which patients to deliver care to, transfer to other providers, or strategically ignore. Yet, we still know little about how nurses engage in situated practices of bedside rationing. Building on the work of Giorgio
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Caring to the End: An Empirical Application of Swanson's Caring Theory to End-of-Life Care. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Rachel Gilbert,Daniela Lillekroken
The aim of the current study was to explore the applicability of Swanson's middle-range theory of caring within the context of end-of-life care provided to nursing home residents. A secondary analysis of data collected from 5 individual interviews and 1 focus group with a total of 9 nurses employed at nursing homes was conducted using qualitative deductive content analysis. The findings highlight the
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Reconciling Incongruencies: A Straussian Grounded Theory Approach to Defining Oncology Nurses' Professional Quality of Life. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Rebecca L Boni,Catherine Dingley
This grounded theory study explored the processes and actions enacted by oncology nurses to enhance professional quality of life and the related meaning, facilitators, and barriers. Oncology nurses described a process by which they continually Reconcile Incongruencies. This process involves 4 categories: Accepting the Context of Oncology Nursing, Bettering the World, Pursuing a Calling, and Being Valued
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An Integrative Review of the Use of the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory in Research. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Wendy S Bauer,Rachel F Schiffman,Julie L Ellis,Jeanne M Erickson,Michele Polfuss,Murad H Taani,Kathleen J Sawin
The extent of the application of the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory (IFSMT) in research has yet to be determined. The purpose of this analysis was to review the use of the IFSMT in published research and evaluate posited constructs and relationships. Dimensions and categories of the IFSMT and the interrelationships were generally supported in the 77 articles reviewed. A majority focused
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Embracing Paradigmatic Diversity in Nursing: The Stadium Model in Nursing. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Ahmad M Deeb,Crystal Vaughan,Rebecca Puddester,Deanne Curnew
Arguably, the quest for a central, unifying paradigm in nursing has distracted from moving disciplinary knowledge forward in an accessible, meaningful manner. In this discursive philosophical article, we uphold that multiparadigmatic research teams and diverse approaches inform effective nursing praxis. We provide an overview of our worldviews (dialectical pluralism, critical realism, humanism, and
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The Effects of Coping Strategies Between Uncertainty and Quality of Life of Korean Women With Gynecological Cancer: Evaluation of Uncertainty in Illness Theory and Stress and Coping Theory. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Eungil Ko,Yaelim Lee
The objective of this study was to explore the mediation effects of coping strategies on the relationship between uncertainty and quality of life in Korean women with gynecological cancer. Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Theory and Lazarus and Folkman's Stress and Coping Theory were used to guide the study. Three coping strategies (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional) partially
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Using a Constructivist-Oriented Modified Grounded Theory Approach in the Study of Intrafamily Trauma Communication Process in War-Affected Families: A Methodologic Example. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Sarah J Hoffman,Windy M Fredkove
Grounded theory methodology is frequently applied in health research, yet studies contending with contextual constraints may require a more pragmatic approach, including potential methodologic divergence and modifications of method choice and application. Dissemination of a detailed documentation and justification of methodologic choices, and specific method modifications and/or innovations, are uncommon
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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Patient's Perception of Nurse-Patient Relationship as Healing Transformations Scale (RELATE Scale). Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Katherine C Rosa
A 3-phase study was conducted to develop and psychometrically evaluate the Patients' Perceptions of their Nurse-Patient Relations as Healing Transformations (RELATE) Scale. There is a lack of tools measuring nurse-patient relationship dynamics from a unitary-transformative paradigm to evaluate the patient's experience of what works to enhance their well-becoming. The 35-item scale was completed by
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Use of the Strong Black Woman Construct in Research: An Integrative Review. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Carrie J Henry,Mi-Kyung Song
This was an integrative review of the literature on research using the strong Black woman (SBW) construct. We searched for data-based articles that mentioned SBW and examined topical areas of investigation, health outcomes and other constructs associated with SBW, and methods used to assess SBW. We found 47 articles. SBW was used to study coping with trauma (n = 11) or perceived offense (n = 10), or
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Analysis and Evaluation of Intersectionality Theory for the Study of Access to Mental Health Services of Children With Refugee Background. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Geneveave Barbo
Multiple and complex factors contribute to the health inequities faced by refugee children accessing mental health care. Nurses play a critical role in addressing health inequities through education, practice, policy, and research. Intersectionality theory holds the potential to support nursing research that seeks to critically examine intersecting social identities and power structures that impact
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Nurses as Disciplinary Agents of the State: Ethical Practice and Mandatory Reporting in the United States. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Danisha Jenkins,Ian Wolfe,Jess Dillard-Wright
This article reviews legislative initiatives that mandate nurses to report patients, families, and clinicians to law enforcement. Most recently, these laws target transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth and people seeking abortion. In this article, we examine the ethics of such laws through professional ethical codes. Furthermore, through a biopolitical lens, we critically analyze examples of nurses'
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A Concept Analysis of Trust Within the Surrogate Decision Maker to Health Care Professional Relationship in the Adult ICU Setting. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Caleb Armstrong
Surrogate decision maker (SDM)-health care professional (HCP) trust is vital to the provision of high-quality care in the adult intensive care unit setting. This concept analysis, using Walker and Avant's methodology, examines the concept of SDM-HCP trust and provides a conceptual definition conducive to instrument development and future quantitative research into this topic. Trust in the SDM-HCP relationship
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Applying the Theory of Guided Participation to Clinical Practice. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Rana Limbo,Karen F Pridham
We present an evidence-based clinical teaching and learning method based on the middle-range theory of Guided Participation (GP). Typically, teaching and learning in a clinical setting refer to providing information based on the learner's diagnosed condition. With GP, the relationship between guide and patient or client is central to how GP sessions proceed. The guide uses GP processes to identify
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An Evolutionary Concept Analysis in People With Heart Failure—Symptom Clusters or Symptom Cluster Profiles? Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Zequan Wang, Samantha Conley, Nancy S. Redeker, Christine Tocchi
The concept of symptom clusters in heart failure (HF) has been defined and measured inconsistently. We used Rodgers' evolutionary method to review related concepts in the HF literature. Symptom clusters and symptom cluster profiles are characterized by multiple symptoms, a synergistic relationship, and result in a myriad of poor outcomes. Researchers should carefully consider the conceptual differences
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Real-World Data for Interdisciplinary Health Care Research: A Case Example Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Eun-Shim Nahm, Shijun Zhu, Kristin Seidl, Lynn Chen, Jenni Day, Hohyun Seong
Real-word data (RWD) refer to data relating to patient health status and/or the delivery of health care routinely collected from a variety of sources, including electronic health records, medical claims data, and patient-generated data. Data sets that combine personal health data stored in different sources can provide a more complete picture of an individual's health and can be used to improve population
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The Experience of Facilitating Inclusive Research Advisory Groups With Parents and People With Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Andrew Cashin, Michelle Kersten, Virginia Howie, Amy Pracilio, Julia Morphet, Ken Griffin, Julian N. Trollor, Nathan J. Wilson
There is little nursing research about process issues in conducting inclusive project advisory groups of people with autism and/or intellectual disability or those who are parents/carers of this cohort. Through a descriptive qualitative design, this article aims to analyze the processes, challenges, and solutions when facilitating these groups for a nursing project in Australia. Reflexive thematic
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Real-World Data for Interdisciplinary Health Care Research: A Case Example. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Eun-Shim Nahm,Shijun Zhu,Kristin Seidl,Lynn Chen,Jenni Day,Hohyun Seong
Real-word data (RWD) refer to data relating to patient health status and/or the delivery of health care routinely collected from a variety of sources, including electronic health records, medical claims data, and patient-generated data. Data sets that combine personal health data stored in different sources can provide a more complete picture of an individual's health and can be used to improve population
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Interpersonal Transphobia Within Nursing: A Critical Concept Exploration Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Jess Crawford, Annette Schultz, Wanda M. Chernomas
Transphobic perceptions negatively impact health care access and outcomes among transgender and gender-diverse people and challenge nurses' capacity to maintain ethical practice standards. The concept of transphobia has not been well defined in the literature or nursing. Using a critical realist lens, this concept exploration sought to define interpersonal transphobia through a review of purposefully
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Women Veterans' Descriptions of Interactions With Civilian Health Care Providers: A Qualitative Inquiry Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Billie S. Vance, Roger Carpenter
Women veterans often obtain care for unique gender- and military-related health issues from civilian health care settings. There is a gap in the literature surrounding woman veterans' perspectives about the care they receive. The purpose of this study was to apply the Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior framework to study the patient-provider interaction described by women veterans. A qualitative
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Intensive Care Unit Nurses' Experience of Watson's Theory of Human Caring Caritas Process III: Developing Spiritual Self to Provide Spiritual Nursing Care Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Danielle Leone-Sheehan, Jane Flanagan, Danny Willis
The purpose of this study was to explore intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' experience of developing spiritual self to meet the significant spiritual and existential needs of patients and their families. A qualitative descriptive method with directed content analysis guided by Watson's Theory of Human Caring was utilized. From a sample of 10 ICU nurses, 3 main themes were described. The themes articulate
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Compassionate Care for Parents Experiencing Miscarriage in the Emergency Department: A Situation-Specific Theory Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Tina Emond, Francine de Montigny, Jessica Webster, Sabrina Zeghiche, Mylène Bossé
In many countries, parents experiencing miscarriage seek treatment in the emergency department (ED). Parents frequently report dissatisfaction with ED care, while nurses report not knowing how to provide optimal care. This article describes the development of a situation-specific theory, Compassionate care for parents experiencing miscarriage in the ED, based on 4 concepts (change trigger, transition
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Social-Ecological Resilience of Indigenous Adolescents in the United States and Canada: A Situation-Specific Nursing Theory Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Christine Hodgson, Timian Godfrey, Rhea N. DeCoteau, Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank, Ruth Taylor-Piliae
For the past decade, resilience research with American Indian/Alaska Native and First Nations/Métis/Inuit adolescents has improved our understanding of how adolescents overcome mental health challenges. A new situation-specific theory is presented to guide nurses in applying the evidence to their practice with Indigenous adolescents in the United States and Canada. The social-ecological resilience
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Women Veterans' Descriptions of Interactions With Civilian Health Care Providers: A Qualitative Inquiry. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Billie S Vance,Roger Carpenter
Women veterans often obtain care for unique gender- and military-related health issues from civilian health care settings. There is a gap in the literature surrounding woman veterans' perspectives about the care they receive. The purpose of this study was to apply the Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior framework to study the patient-provider interaction described by women veterans. A qualitative
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Intensive Care Unit Nurses' Experience of Watson's Theory of Human Caring Caritas Process III: Developing Spiritual Self to Provide Spiritual Nursing Care. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Danielle Leone-Sheehan,Jane Flanagan,Danny Willis
The purpose of this study was to explore intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' experience of developing spiritual self to meet the significant spiritual and existential needs of patients and their families. A qualitative descriptive method with directed content analysis guided by Watson's Theory of Human Caring was utilized. From a sample of 10 ICU nurses, 3 main themes were described. The themes articulate
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A Unitary Theory of Healing Through Touch. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Marlaine C Smith,Sean M Reed
Touch has been linked empirically to healing outcomes; therefore, developing theories about the dynamics between touch and healing is important for nursing. A practice-based theory is described within a Unitary Science perspective emerging from the findings of a qualitative descriptive study of the experiences of persons with advanced cancer receiving touch (massage and simple touch) during hospice
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A Unitary Theory of Healing Through Touch Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Marlaine C. Smith, Sean M. Reed
Touch has been linked empirically to healing outcomes; therefore, developing theories about the dynamics between touch and healing is important for nursing. A practice-based theory is described within a Unitary Science perspective emerging from the findings of a qualitative descriptive study of the experiences of persons with advanced cancer receiving touch (massage and simple touch) during hospice
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Caring for a Child With an Acquired Disability: Unveiling Light From Darkness. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Brad Phillips
This study explored how parents of children with acquired disabilities transform loss into meaning when faced with traumatic experiences. This type of loss is ambiguous and different from that of the bereaved. Directed content analysis was guided by the predetermined categories of unveiling, darkness, and light. Stories from 8 parents revealed the ability to decide how they perceived their experiences
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Reflections on Black Nurses' Invisibility: Exploring the Contribution of Black Nurses to British Columbia (Canada), 1845-1910. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Ismalia De Sousa,Lydia Wytenbroek,Geertje Boschma,Sally Thorne
Black nurses are at the margins of the annals of history and there is a dearth of historical accounts of their work. Drawing on our historical research about Black nurses in British Columbia (Canada) between 1845 and 1910, we point to the complexity of Black women's lives and argue that Black nurses disrupted the conceptualization of Blackness and Black womanhood of the time. We demonstrate the vital
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Research Trends and Hot Topics on Virtual Reality in Nursing: A Bibliometric Analysis Using CiteSpace Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Selma Turan Kavradim, Şefika Tuğba Yangöz, Zeynep Ozer
This bibliometric analysis was conducted to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of virtual reality in nursing, and to identify the research trends and hot topics in this field. Data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database in May and June 2022, and analyses were performed using CiteSpace 6.1.R2. A total of 885 studies on virtual reality were included in the bibliometric
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Resilient Mothering: An Application of Transitions Theory From Pregnancy to Motherhood Among Women Living With HIV in Western Kenya Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Emily L. Tuthill, Ann E. Maltby, Belinda C. Odhiambo, Eliud Akama, Carol Dawson-Rose, Sheri D. Weiser
Efficacious strategies can now prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child. However, transmission rates remain unacceptably high, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding women's perinatal transitions can inform interventions to support adherence to preventive strategies. Therefore, we applied Transitions Theory in a longitudinal qualitative study to explore perinatal transitions among
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Transition in the Context of Parental Participation in Caring for Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Won-Oak Oh, Anna Lee, Yoo-Jin Heo
While participating in the care for a baby in a neonatal intensive care unit, parents experience a transition in which they adapt to changes and reconstruct their roles and identities. However, there is no clear explanation for this concept of transition. The purpose of this study was to clarify this concept using Rodgers' evolutionary approach. The identified attributes of the concept were a process
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Research Trends and Hot Topics on Virtual Reality in Nursing: A Bibliometric Analysis Using CiteSpace. Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Selma Turan Kavradim,Şefika Tuğba Yangöz,Zeynep Ozer
This bibliometric analysis was conducted to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of virtual reality in nursing, and to identify the research trends and hot topics in this field. Data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database in May and June 2022, and analyses were performed using CiteSpace 6.1.R2. A total of 885 studies on virtual reality were included in the bibliometric
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“Nursing (Her) Storytelling”: An Ethnographic Fiction Proposal for Exploring Feminist Health Activism in Spain Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Almudena Alameda-Cuesta, Irene Blanco-Fuente, Amparo Bonilla-Campos, Elena Casado-Aparicio, M. Pilar Domínguez-Castillo, Dau García-Dauder, Ángel Luis Lara-Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel López-Sáez, Nerea Velázquez-Berrio, Carmen Romero-Bachiller
The aim of this article is to share theoretical and methodological reflections on a project on feminist epistemologies and health activism. Based on the analysis of 12 life stories and 1 group interview, an approach based on ethnographic fiction is proposed through the creation of a serial story in podcast format. This approach helps in generating emotions to facilitate understanding and awareness
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Locating Culturally Safe Care in Narratives of Historical Trauma and Health in Guam: A Third-Space Model of CHamoru Health Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Lucy Joo-Castro, Amanda M. Emerson
We sought to understand contemporary health beliefs and practices of the CHamorus of Guam in the context of their perceptions of historical trauma. Narrative analysis of 20 story-eliciting interviews with 10 CHamoru adults identified stories of health and illness and living in-betweenness, wherein participants described navigation between health practices of Traditional and Western cultures in the
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Concept Analysis: LGBT+ Inclusive Health Care Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Roberto L. Roman Laporte, Joseph P. De Santis
Clients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBT+) may experience barriers in health care access and services. LGBT+ clients want a welcoming, inclusive, and affirming encounter with nurses and other health care providers. This concept analysis used a modified Walker and Avant method to clarify the concept of LGBT+ inclusive health care. Antecedents, attributes,
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What Science Leaves Unsaid: A Reconsideration in 2 Voices Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Geraldine Gorman, Shirley Stephenson
At a time when new and veteran nurses are fleeing the profession and the term resilience is as worn out as the workers it is meant to inspire, scholars and educators must excavate the intuitive and creative core of nursing. Science addresses facts but lacks language for nuance. This article asserts that nursing, which lags behind medicine in appreciating the value of its stories, must recognize the
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The State of the Science of Nurses' Implicit Bias: A Call to Go Beyond the Face of the Other and Revisit the Ethics of Belonging and Power Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Holly Wei, Zula Price, Kara Evans, Amanda Haberstroh, Vicki Hines-Martin, Candace C. Harrington
This article summarizes the current state of nurses' implicit bias and discusses the phenomenon from Levinas' face of the Other and ethics of belonging, Watson's human caring and unitary caring science, and Chinn's peace and power theory. Nurses' implicit bias is a global issue; the primary sources of nurses' implicit bias include race/ethnicity, sexuality, health conditions, age, mental health status
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Unitary Appreciative Nursing Praxis Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 W. Richard III Cowling
The purposes of this article encompass describing the development of unitary appreciative nursing praxis since the conception of a unitary pattern-based nursing practice over 30 years ago; explicating unitary appreciative nursing praxis in its current state; and clarifying the elements and dimensions of a unitary appreciative nursing praxis model. The body of this work is linked to a greater call for
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Caring in the Context of Risk: Moving Beyond Duty Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Darcy Copeland
Hospital-based nurses face many occupational risks. In the early days of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, questions were raised regarding nurses' responsibilities to provide care in the context of risk of exposure to this infectious disease. In the United States, these questions were answered relatively swiftly using a deontological framework. If nurses did not have access to appropriate
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Shaming: A Concept Analysis Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Michelle L. Gee, Darcy Copeland
Nurses in a variety of settings frequently use behavior modification strategies to promote health behavior change. Shaming is one such behavior modification tool, but its use in nursing is poorly understood. A concept analysis using Walker and Avant's method was performed. After an extensive literature review, a conceptual definition of shaming is proposed and defining attributes, antecedents, and
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Factors Involved in Nurses' Health-Seeking Behaviors: A Qualitative Study Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Tahereh Najafi, Forough Rafii, Sara Rahimi
This study aimed to explore the factors involved in Iranian nurses' health-seeking behavior. In this qualitative exploratory descriptive study, 15 nurses from hospitals affiliated to Iran and Qazvin University of Medical Sciences were interviewed from April to March 2020. Data were collected via purposive sampling by unstructured in-depth interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings identified
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An Analysis and Evaluation of Kumpfer's Resilience Framework Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Zhihong Zhang, Karen F. Stein, Sally A. Norton, Marie A. Flannery
Kumpfer's resilience framework (KRF) was initially developed from evidence on resilience and its predictors among at-risk youth. This framework has been expanded to guide resilience research in diverse populations facing a variety of stressors. However, KRF's strengths and weaknesses have not been evaluated since its publication. Guided by Walker and Avant's method, an analysis of KRF was conducted
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“Ally Theater Is a Problem”: LGBTQI+ Migrants' Experiences With Nurses in Canada Adv. Nurs. Sci. (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Roya Haghiri-Vijeh
In a 2021 research study, exploring the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, trans, queer, intersex, and the “+” (LGBTQI+) migrants in health care in Canada, participants referred to the term “ally theater” in relation to their encounters with nurses. That is, the participants asserted that some nurses publicly demonstrate performative, or superficial, allyship regarding their identities