Nursing science quarterly
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This column features a report of a research project in a community hospital. Staff members were given opportunities to engage and act on the ideas of Boykin and Schoenhofer in their nursing as caring theory. ⋯ Strategies that were implemented to guide the values of nursing as caring theory are described. The result of the project was an environment that nurtures persons in their caring and growing in caring while illuminating the fullness of nursing.
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Nursing science quarterly · Jul 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialPatterning of pain and power with guided imagery.
Using Martha Rogers' science of unitary human beings, changes in pain and power among 42 patients were examined in relation to the use of a guided imagery modality. Participants were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups and repeated measures MANCOVA was used to detect differences in pain and power over a 4-day period of time. ⋯ No differences in power emerged. Guided imagery appeared to have potential as a useful nursing modality for chronic pain sufferers.
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Nursing science quarterly · Jan 2004
Understanding the importance of values and moral attitudes in nursing care in preserving human dignity.
The purpose of this investigation was to explore when nursing becomes an art, and to develop a theory/model of nursing as art. The overall design of the investigation was qualitative, and phenomenological-hermeneutic. The five substantial categories in the theory/model are: Invitation and confirmation, encounter, values, moral attitude and demeanor, the act of good will, and aesthetic communication. One main finding of this nursing investigation based on the caring perspective was that values and a thoroughly moral attitude and demeanor are central when nursing becomes an art.
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Nursing science quarterly · Jul 2003
Psychological distress: testing hypotheses based on Roy's adaptation model.
This study examined the relationships among social support, parenting stress, coping style, and psychological distress in parents caring for children with cancer. The hypothesis that coping style plays a mediating role between social support and parenting stress, and psychological distress was tested for both mothers and fathers. ⋯ The findings indicate that the hypotheses derived from the Roy adaptation model were supported for both mothers and fathers. A longitudinal study is suggested to examine the circular process of stimulus, coping process, and adaptation outcomes.
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Nursing science quarterly · Jul 2003
Case ReportsNurse-parent dialogue: illuminating the evolving pattern of families with children who are medically fragile.
Guided by Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness, this study explored the pattern of nurse-parent interaction in families with children who were medically fragile by applying the hermeneutic, dialectic method of interviewing and analysis. Living with children who are medically fragile was manifested by continual uncertainity. Families changed from trying to gain control of their uncertainty to learning to live in the uncertainty, as they evolved through an initial p[eriod of disruption and disorganization to organization at another level. This required new ways of relating to friends, family, healthcare providers, and the community, expanding the consciousness of the family.