Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-27DOI: 10.1111/nin.12681
Anitha M Tind, Bente Hoeck, Helle Elisabeth Andersen, Charlotte Delmar
{"title":"\"Organizing practice\": The hidden work of homecare nurses in fighting health inequity and advancing social justice.","authors":"Anitha M Tind, Bente Hoeck, Helle Elisabeth Andersen, Charlotte Delmar","doi":"10.1111/nin.12681","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12681","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The nursing profession has a long history of advocating for social justice and health equity, and both values profoundly infuse nursing ethics, theory, and education. Homecare nursing occurs between the patient's daily life at home and the public health care system. Therefore, homecare nurses ideally possess insight into the living conditions and social determinants of health that their patients experience. This interpretive phenomenological study explores the strategies employed by homecare nurses to fight health inequity and advance social justice. Data were collected through participant observations, situational interviews, and small group interviews with 12 homecare nurses from two municipalities. Three analytical approaches were used: paradigm cases, exemplars, and thematic analysis. The data identified two primary strategies homecare nurses use to circumvent, solve, and mitigate the negative consequences of social determinants of health on patients' care and treatment: \"Negotiating practice\" and \"Aligning practice.\" \"Negotiating practice\" ensures that care and treatment are delivered in a way acceptable to all involved. \"Aligning practice\" ensures cohesion, progression in the treatment and care trajectory, and support for patients and relatives in navigating the system. Both strategies are part of nurses' largely hidden work, reflecting the nursing profession's position as nested between the individual patient and the system.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12681"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2021-06-02DOI: 10.1111/nin.12422
Maria Luisa Martin-Ferreres, Laia Wennberg-Capellades, Encarnación Rodríguez, Mireia Llaurado-Serra, M Angeles de Juan Pardo
{"title":"Challenges for hospital management in supporting nurses to deliver humanized care.","authors":"Maria Luisa Martin-Ferreres, Laia Wennberg-Capellades, Encarnación Rodríguez, Mireia Llaurado-Serra, M Angeles de Juan Pardo","doi":"10.1111/nin.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals are paying increasing attention to the delivery of humanized care. The purpose of this study was to explore from the nursing perspective what hospital managers might do to facilitate this. A secondary analysis from a primary ethnographic study regarding dignity in nursing practice was conducted. Twenty interviews of internal medicine nurses from four hospitals were analyzed, and three main themes were identified: Management of nursing teams, Management of ethical values, and Management of the context. It is important for institutional values to be closely aligned with those of the nursing profession, and nurse managers play a key role in ensuring that the latter are applied in practice. The proposed actions offer a cost-effective framework through which nurses and managers may promote the delivery of humanized care.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39068472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-20DOI: 10.1111/nin.12671
Iris Epstein, Lindsay Stephens, Melanie Baljko, Greg Procknow, Paula Mastrilli
{"title":"Ableism and the discourse of risk and safety in patient-facing work-integrated learning.","authors":"Iris Epstein, Lindsay Stephens, Melanie Baljko, Greg Procknow, Paula Mastrilli","doi":"10.1111/nin.12671","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12671","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many countries, such as Canada, the USA, England, and Australia, to graduate from a regulated profession such as nursing, students must complete a set of work-integrated learning (WIL) hours and demonstrate their ability to safely perform physical skills and apply knowledge in relation to professional standards. For a disabled nursing student (DNS) undergoing training in higher education institutions (HEI), securing proper accommodations to participate effectively in WIL experiences has been difficult due to concerns related to risks to self and patient safety. This study used critical discourse analysis to investigate the framing of risk and safety in association with providing DNS with accommodation in WIL. Our data were collected from an intensive codesign (group-based discussion) session with participants (n = 16), including clinicians and DNS, from four institutions (two WIL-sites and two HEI organizations). Using an iterative thematic approach based on Foucauldian framework, our analysis revealed three ways in which health professionals discursively framed risk and safety: (a) beliefs that a lack of disclosure by disabled students decreases patient safety and indicates poor self-reflection, (b) concerns that accommodating students poses a risk to institutions offering WIL experiences and to the relationships between HEI and institutions offering WIL-sites, and (c) a framing which challenges the dominant discourse by thinking about safety and risk more expansively. Our findings suggest the first two of these framings are ableist and function to enact barriers to access for DNSs in WIL, whereas the third framing serves the goal of inclusion. Recommendations to address the current ableist discourse within the Canadian nursing context are provided, which may also be applicable across other regulated health professions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12671"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-04DOI: 10.1111/nin.12659
Dena Hassouneh, Laura Mood, Kendra Birnley, Andrew Kualaau, Ellen Garcia
{"title":"Seeking inclusion while navigating exclusion: Theorizing the experiences of disabled nursing faculty in academe.","authors":"Dena Hassouneh, Laura Mood, Kendra Birnley, Andrew Kualaau, Ellen Garcia","doi":"10.1111/nin.12659","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12659","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite repeated calls for equity, diversity, and inclusion in nursing education and the significance of disability for the vocation of nursing, the voices and experiences of nursing faculty with disabilities are largely absent from our literature. In this paper, we present a critical grounded theory of the experiences of disabled nursing faculty in academe to begin to amend this gap. Using critical disability studies as a sensitizing framework and building on prior work on racism and other systems of oppression in nursing, we theorize that nursing academe is a normalized space produced by White, able-mindbodied, and cis-heteropatriarchal discourses that regulate the boundaries of inclusion via exclusionary social norms. Further, we describe the operations of normalcy in nursing academe, discuss implications for education and health care, and consider avenues for change.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12659"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-25DOI: 10.1111/nin.12669
Gabay Gillie, Yaarit Bokek-Cohen
{"title":"Why are nurses indifferent to the phenomenon of gaslighting of patients in medical systems?","authors":"Gabay Gillie, Yaarit Bokek-Cohen","doi":"10.1111/nin.12669","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12669"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142057085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1111/nin.12672
Graham McCaffrey
{"title":"Enactivism: Embodied cognition, sense-making, and nursing.","authors":"Graham McCaffrey","doi":"10.1111/nin.12672","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Enactivism is a branch of embodied cognition theory that argues for a highly distributed model of cognition as a sense-making process involving brain, body, environment, and subjective experience. It is a theoretical framework with potential value for nursing since it offers an integrated framework for human sense-making that includes physiological and psychological factors as well as the primary experience of subjective perceptions. This paper presents an introduction to the background and main tenets of enactivist theory. These are discussed in relation to nursing, and mental health nursing to argue for the relevance of enactivism in nursing knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12672"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1111/nin.12667
Altair Seabra de Farias, Guilherme Pinto Viana, Joseir Saturnino Cristino, Franciane Ribeiro Farias, Lara Francisca Ribeiro Farias, Raquel Nascimento de Freitas, Felipe Murta, Vinícius Azevedo Machado, Jacqueline de Almeida Gonçalves Sachett, Wuelton M Monteiro
{"title":"Bridges between two medical realities: Perspectives of Indigenous medical and nursing students on snakebite care in the Brazilian Amazon.","authors":"Altair Seabra de Farias, Guilherme Pinto Viana, Joseir Saturnino Cristino, Franciane Ribeiro Farias, Lara Francisca Ribeiro Farias, Raquel Nascimento de Freitas, Felipe Murta, Vinícius Azevedo Machado, Jacqueline de Almeida Gonçalves Sachett, Wuelton M Monteiro","doi":"10.1111/nin.12667","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12667","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the Brazilian Amazon, snakebite envenomations (SBEs) disproportionately affect Indigenous populations, and have a significantly higher incidence and lethality than in non-Indigenous populations. This qualitative study describes the Indigenous and biomedical healthcare domains for SBE care from the perspective of the Indigenous medical and nursing students in Manaus, Western Brazilian Amazon. In-depth interviews were conducted with five Indigenous students from the Amazonas State University, between January and December 2021. The interviews were analyzed using inductive content analysis. We organized an explanatory model with five themes: (1) participants' identities; (2) causality levels in Indigenous and biomedical systems; (3) therapeutic itineraries in Indigenous and biomedical systems; (4) ideological implications of adding biomedical devices to Indigenous healing systems; and (5) therapeutic failure in and efficacy of Indigenous and biomedical systems. From a noncolonial perspective and seeking to increase the quality and acceptability of health care for the Indigenous populations of the Brazilian Amazon, the training of Indigenous health professionals presents itself as a promising strategy. For this goal, universities should serve as empowering settings for Indigenous health students that support them in their growth and development, raise their awareness of injustice, and catalyze change toward a culturally adapted and effective service for the users.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12667"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141977046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1111/nin.12679
Sally Thorne
{"title":"How should nursing think about peace?","authors":"Sally Thorne","doi":"10.1111/nin.12679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":"31 4","pages":"e12679"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-06-28DOI: 10.1111/nin.12655
Matthew Wynn, Lisa Garwood-Cross
{"title":"Reassembling nursing in the digital age: An actor-network theory perspective.","authors":"Matthew Wynn, Lisa Garwood-Cross","doi":"10.1111/nin.12655","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the application of actor-network theory (ANT) to the nursing profession, proposing a novel perspective in understanding nursing in the context of modern digital healthcare. Traditional grand nursing theories, while foundational, often fail to encapsulate the dynamic and complex nature of nursing, particularly in an era of rapid technological advancements and shifting societal dynamics. ANT, with its emphasis on the relationships between human and nonhuman actors, offers a framework to understand nursing beyond traditional paradigms. This article makes two key arguments: first, that nursing can be viewed as a highly organised social assemblage, where both human (nurses, patients and policymakers) and nonhuman actors (technologies, medical equipment, institutional policies) play a crucial role, and second, that ANT can be used to enhance existing nursing theory to better understand the role of technology in nursing practice. The article considers how ANT can provide a more holistic and adaptable model for describing the nursing profession, particularly in an era where technology plays an integral role in healthcare delivery. It discusses the implications of viewing nursing through ANT, highlighting the need for nursing education and practice to adapt to the interconnected and technologically advanced nature of modern healthcare. The article also acknowledges the limitations of ANT, particularly its potential oversimplification of the complex ethical dimensions inherent in nursing and its focus on observable phenomena.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141471978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nursing InquiryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-07-07DOI: 10.1111/nin.12658
Ryan Essex, Lydia Mainey, Jess Dillard-Wright, Sarah Richardson
{"title":"Political action in nursing and medical codes of ethics.","authors":"Ryan Essex, Lydia Mainey, Jess Dillard-Wright, Sarah Richardson","doi":"10.1111/nin.12658","DOIUrl":"10.1111/nin.12658","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Political action has a long history in the health workforce. There are multiple historical examples, from civil disobedience to marches and even sabotage that can be attributed to health workers. Such actions remain a feature of the healthcare community to this day; their status with professional and regulatory bodies is far less clear, however. This has created uncertainty for those undertaking such action, particularly those who are engaged in what could be termed 'contentious' forms of action. This study explored how advocacy and activism were presented in nursing and medical codes of ethics, comparing disciplinary and temporo-spatial differences to understand how such action may be promoted or constrained by codes. The data for this study comes from 217 codes of ethics. Because of the size of the corpus and to facilitate analysis, natural language processing was utilised, which allowed for an automated exploration of the data and for comparisons to be drawn between groups. This was complemented by a manual search and contextualisation of the data. While there were noticeable differences between medical and nursing codes, overall, advocacy, activism and even politics were rarely discussed explicitly in most codes. When such action was spoken about, this was often vague and imprecise with codes speaking of 'political action' and 'advocacy' in general terms. While some codes were far more forthright in what they meant about advocacy or broader political action (i.e., Nursing codes in Denmark, Norway, Canada) more forceful language that spoke in specific terms or in terms of oppositional or specific actions (e.g., civil disobedience or marches) was almost completely avoided. These results are discussed in relation to the broader literature on codes and the normative questions they raise, namely whether such action should be included in codes of ethics at all.</p>","PeriodicalId":49727,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":"e12658"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}