{"title":"Acupuncture and Chinese herbs for the treatment of a dermatological problem.","authors":"V Griffiths","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294052","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":"Weaning--a nursing challenge.","authors":"M Beveridge","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Weaning a patient from mechanical ventilation and then to extubation is a challenge for critical care nurses who play a vital role in assessing a patient's readiness for weaning and managing the weaning trials. Traditionally, critical care nurses perform the process, but only under the direction and supervision of intensivists. This team approach is important but can lead to delays. I believe that with clearly defined boundaries a critical care nurse could expedite the weaning process of a patient from mechanical ventilation. An Intensive Care Unit protocol, which provides a valid framework from which professional advanced nurse clinicians could work, would give increased autonomy and legitimacy, avoiding unnecessary delays.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294051","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 experience of the female nurse who is a patient: powerless or in control?","authors":"A Williams","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This qualitative study sought to explore the experience of the female nurse as patient, focusing on the power relations between the female nurse-patient and the female nurse providing care. A critical approach informed the interviews with six registered nurses regarding their hospitalised experiences, and why they chose to disclose or withhold their professional occupation. Thematic and deconstructive analysis revealed the subjugation and marginalisation of these nurse-patients, suggesting that nurses do not always view nurse-patients as individuals requiring holistic care, as well as the need for a more balanced sharing of power between these two groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"32-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294050","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 importance of dignity, convenience and suitability in dementia clothing.","authors":"M Grace","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21294053","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":"Presencing in practice. Utilising the core of the caring process.","authors":"V Owen-Mills","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is about knowing in nursing, and using presence knowingly. It examines some descriptions from the literature and discusses how issues raised sit with my personal practice-based understanding of presencing. Four short exemplars are given to illustrate some of my experience with presencing, often in difficult circumstances, in clinical nursing practice over the years.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"4-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21295491","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 holistic approach in facilitating adherence in people with diabetes.","authors":"R Lo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The issue of adherence is a multidimensional one, with a complex set of factors that affect the behaviour of people with chronic illness. This article draws on some of the results of a recent study which explored the psychosocial factors affecting adherence to self-care behaviours in people with diabetes mellitus (DM).</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"10-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21295492","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":"Ethical holistic thinking and practice for community health workers and nurses.","authors":"J McIntyre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If we take on board the assumption that social realities are perceived through filters of experience, social position, personality and emotion, then we accept that 'facts' can be differently construed or constructed Compassion cannot be taught as a competency, but we can be made aware through reflexive thinking that the closest we can ever get to a shared truth is through listening to and understanding the other. This paper is a modest attempt to provide some tools for community health workers and nurses who are concerned about the quality of their practice and wish to find creative solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":80194,"journal":{"name":"The Australian journal of holistic nursing","volume":"5 1","pages":"19-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21295493","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}