{"title":"Book Review: Reading at University: A Guide for Students","authors":"Sarah Ryan","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131414939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nursing and midwifery research in England: Working towards establishing a dedicated fund","authors":"A. Rafferty, R. Newell, M. Traynor","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the case for establishing a strategic fund for research in nursing, midwifery and health visiting, and for building capacity in the field. It reviews the key policy documents and staging posts in the process and argues that both professional push and policy pull factors have provided the key catalyst for change. The role and responsibilities of nurses, midwives and health visitors are increasing in the light of government policies and professional aspirations. An appropriate evidence base is essential to understanding, undertaking, commissioning and implementing research. Research capacity-building needs to be integrated into wider strategic plans for the profession, as well as R&D policy per se. Establishing a fund to develop high-calibre research is only the beginning of a much longer process to give nursing research greater influence. Researchers, educators, managers and clinicians need to join forces to build strong communities and strengthen their links with patient and user groups. However, the investment in nursing and midwifery R&D will have failed if it benefits the professional community only. Patient care needs to be part of what could be termed 'payback' for investment and it is essential to develop an evaluation strategy capable of measuring a range of impacts from the outset.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133630274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refracting experience: Reflection, postmodernity and transformations","authors":"A. Pryce","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700411","url":null,"abstract":"'Reflection' might be characterised as a process that uses a number of relatively simple models for analysis of occupational practice. Such models structure ways of focusing on cause, effect and affect. On the other hand, the rhetoric of professional and personal empowerment is grounded in the language of reflexivity, self-knowledge, humanistic psychology and (postmodern) constructions of spirituality and the sacred. However, nursing literature appears rarely to address the postmodern, cultural contexts of reflection. This paper identifies paradoxes at the heart of reflective practice in nursing and some of the ideological functions of reflection. It focuses on the tensions central to reflection, some of which have the potential to highlight contradictions in practice, research and the production of theory. The aim here is to consider modernist assumptions that have framed nursing and nursing research while often failing to interrogate and explicate its own inherent contradictions. It is argued that a more critical reflexive process grounded in social context is potentially transformative through engaging with the postmodern destabilising of normative assumptions. This is considered in relation to modernity and postmodernity and the increasing emphasis on text and intertextuality. In conclusion, it is proposed that refraction might be a helpful concept. It is suggested that through a more sociologically prismatic lens, the realities and truths of the reflective narrative can be interpreted as a transformative means of resistance to the dominant medicalised discourses.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132670049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The organisation of cancer nursing services in the UK: A review of current practices","authors":"A. Richardson, Morven Miller, H. Potter","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700409","url":null,"abstract":"The reorganization of cancer services in recent years has presented cancer nursing with a range of organisational and developmental challenges. It is therefore encouraging to note that the specialty has evolved to the extent that an efficient and effective cancer nursing workforce is now acknowledged as a prerequisite for the provision of high-quality cancer care (Department of Health, 1995; 2000a; 2000b). However, despite the advances there has been little evaluation of the critical issues faced by specialist cancer nurses. This project was undertaken as part of a larger scoping exercise designed to assimilate an evidence base to support the development, delivery and evaluation of UK cancer nursing services. This element of the project aimed to provide information to support the development and organisation of cancer nursing services by focusing on specific aspects of care (DoH, 2000a). The results indicate that lead cancer nurses are striving to ensure that patients are provided with the best quality care through nurses' participation in collaborative endeavours, for example with the primary care and the voluntary sectors. There is still much to be achieved, primarily in the areas of workforce planning, the skill development of non-specialist nurses, and research and development. The evidence demonstrates that cancer nursing will continue to accept the challenges of changing practice, working to ensure that patients receive a high-quality service.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127165060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authors In This Issue","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116600961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A contribution to the history of learning disability nursing","authors":"D. Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700307","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarises a piece of research that considers the place of learning disability nursing within the nursing profession. Taking an historical perspective, the research asks why learning disability nursing became part of the nursing profession, and then explores subsequent debates about its continued presence in nursing. Its methodology is based on an historical approach combined with insights gained from contemporary policy issues within learning disability nursing. Archival material from the General Nursing Council and published material from the nursing press between 1913 and 1959 has been utilised, along with institutional archives and oral history. It is suggested that the history of learning disability nursing has been neglected within the history of nursing, yet on examination of the subject, significant insights were revealed into the current position of learning disability nursing specifically and nursing generally. In particular, the paper suggests that learning disability nursing has been marginalised within the nursing profession because it does not conform to an image of nursing based on ill health.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116866156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dissemination and utilization of an intervention to manage breathlessness: Letting go or letting down?","authors":"K. Froggatt, J. Corner, M. Bredin","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700311","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between research and practice development has not always been a close one. Researchers focus upon the production of new knowledge to create the evidence base upon which the development of practice is taken forward, usually by other people within the clinical area. Work being undertaken at the Macmillan Practice Development Unit (MPDU) in London about the dissemination and utilisation of evidence concerning the management of breathlessness has raised a number of issues. These concern the confidence of practitioners to take on new approaches within the practice sphere, their desire for accredited education, and questions about responsibility for, and ownership of, the dissemination process. Different values about the nature of learning are explored here, which may explain the dissonance between practitioner and researcher expectations about the dissemination and utilisation process.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128641172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing pain in children: An observational study","authors":"A. Twycross","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700303","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an observational study which examined how nurses (n=13) managed pain in one surgical ward in the Midlands. The results indicate that, while the nurses were good at giving analgesic drugs, general nursing care related to pain management was poor; for example, pain assessment was not undertaken systematically and non-drug methods of pain relief were rarely used. This was despite the ward being particularly quiet during the period of observation. The majority of prescribed doses of analgesia were within therapeutic levels. The results of the study add weight to the supposition put forward by Francke et al. (1997) that many nurses hold a one-sided view of pain management and believe that the nurse's role in pain management is synonymous with the administration of analgesic drugs. Other nurses hold an integrated view and believe that, in addition to pharmacological interventions, psychosocial and other non-drug interventions may be valuable in pain management. It is also postulated that poor pain management may be due to the stress inherent within nurses' role and associated with caring for children in pain.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123533330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing research capacity: Identifying and quantifying nursing research activity in the NHS","authors":"J. Tanner, C. Hale","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700309","url":null,"abstract":"Many hospitals are beginning to implement strategies that should strengthen and support nursing research capacity. One large NHS trust hospital in England wished to identify the level and scope of its nursing research activity to provide a baseline against which to measure future progress and to provide information that would contribute to its capacity-building strategy. The primary aim of the study was to identify the number of research-active nurses within the trust. A 'walkabout', database search and interviews with senior nurses suggested that 34 out of 1,574 nurses (2.1%) were considered to be research active, with 14 of these nurses having at least one publication. When compared with other studies measuring nursing research activity, 2.1% was found to be significantly lower than the findings in all these other studies. However, analysis suggests that the differences in reported levels of research activity might be due to differing sampling methods and various definitions of what constitutes research activity. Comparing extrapolated data (number of publications) from each study suggests that research activity is comparable throughout the UK and in Australia.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131272209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An investigation of the hospital experiences of parents with a child in paediatric intensive care","authors":"S. Dampier, S. Campbell, D. Watson","doi":"10.1177/136140960200700304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700304","url":null,"abstract":"The experience of families of children admitted to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) frequently results in their feeling disempowered. The following phenomenological study involved 15 families of children who were critically ill and explored their journey from the point the child became ill, to the crisis of admission to the PICU, the subsequent discharge to the ward and, finally, the child's return home. An analysis uncovered a series of pathways that the families' experiences inevitably followed, which frequently caused them to feel disempowered. The study pinpoints key issues faced by the families and concludes that it is possible to improve their experience.","PeriodicalId":177021,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Times Research","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132505833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}