Recently added articles from Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice:
The Relationship of Education and Moral Reasoning to Ethical Practice: A Meta-Analysis of Quantitative Studies
Jan 01, 2001; ... This meta-analytic article of quantitative studies is aimed at summarizing knowledge gained on ethical practice for the period of 1987 to 1997 and at suggesting directions for future research. It specifically investigated the relationships of education and moral reasoning to ethical practice, ...
Response to "The Relationship of Education and Moral Reasoning to Ethical Practice: A Meta-Analysis of Quantitative Studies"
Jan 01, 2001; ... Rapid changes in health care, especially technology, have created a myriad of dilemmas that professional nurses must face in everyday practice when caring for patients ranging from the 12-ounce premature infant to the 80-year-old undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. When these changes are ...
Clinical Sensitivity: The Inseparability of Ethical Perceptiveness and Clinical Knowledge
Jan 01, 2001; ... This article argues that there is an important connection between ethical sensitivity and clinical competency in nursing. This is more than a defense for ethical attitudes and virtues in clinical practice, however. I will show in what way ethical sensitivity is important not only to moral ...
Response to "Clinical Sensitivity: The Inseparability of Ethical Perceptiveness and Clinical Knowledge"
Jan 01, 2001; ... Per Nortvedt offers a compelling argument in support of the moral nature of clinical encounters. He claims that ethical sensitivity is a precondition for clinical understanding; he argues that such sensitivity is pre-theoretical and relies on human receptivity and empathic awareness. While ...
Feminism and Public Health Nursing: Partners for Health
Jan 01, 2001; ... It is a well-known fact that nursing and feminism have enjoyed an uneasy alliance. In recent years, however, nursing has begun to recognize the importance of feminism. Nevertheless, the literature still rarely addresses the relevance of feminism for public health nursing. In this article, I ...
Response to "Feminism and Public Health Nursing: Partners for Health"
Jan 01, 2001; ... In "Feminism and Public Health Nursing" Beverly Leipert asserts that feminism is highly relevant and "vitally important for the development of public health nursing and for health care." This assertion is supported by an analysis of the key concepts of feminism, a limited number of research ...
Recovery: A Phenomenon Extending Beyond Discharge
Jan 01, 2001; ... The purpose of this study was to conceptualize and order theoretically the process of recovery. Intensive telephone interviews were carried out at 2,4, and 6 weeks postoperatively to elicit descriptions of postdischarge experiences from 25 subjects who had experienced uncomplicated ...
Response to "Recovery: A Phenomenon Extending Beyond Discharge"
Jan 01, 2001; ... Baker concludes her article with the statement "In summary, this theoretical exploration of postdischarge recovery validates a common-sense understanding of recovery." Future research that tests interventions that promote an individual's return to health must conceptualize recovery as a ...
Reflections on "Recovery: A Phenomenon Extending Beyond Discharge"
Jan 01, 2001; ... When my original study was proposed the focus was abstract and theoretical and postdischarge recovery had not been studied from a patient perspective. By the time data collection had begun, hospitals were preparing for prospective payment based on Diagnostic Related Groups and there was a sense ...
The Image of Nursing in Hospital Promotional Materials: A Discourse Analysis
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media (Sigma Theta Tau, 1998) calls nursing the "invisible partner" in the health care industry. It has been argued that nurses have learned to produce documentation that causes them and the work of nursing to disappear into the text, therefore becoming ...
Response to "The Image of Nursing in Hospital Promotional Materials: A Discourse Analysis"
Jan 01, 2001; ... Powers' study addresses an important theme for nursing. How the profession is viewed and understood by others has been an area of interest for years. Indeed, the public's consistently high regard for nursing has sparked renewed attention in the quest to more fully comprehend the reasons for that ...
Development of Instruments to Measure Appraisal of Care Among Japanese Family Caregivers of the Elderly
Jan 01, 2001; ... The purpose of this study was to develop two instruments for the evaluation of positive and negative appraisal of care among family caregivers of elderly Japanese care recipients within the framework of caregiver adaptation. The positive appraisal of care instrument (PAC) includes domains of ...
Response to "Development of Instruments to Measure Appraisal of Care Among Japanese Family Caregivers of the Elderly"
Jan 01, 2001; ... Study of family caregiving has been intensive in many disciplines for several decades. In the United States, most of the studies have been on dominant population groups rather than minority or immigrant populations and have focused on negative rather than positive outcomes. There is, however, ...
Health and Service Utilization Patterns Among Homeless Men in Transition: Exploring the Need for On-Site, Shelter-Based Nursing Care
Jan 01, 2001; ... Between September 1999 and May 2000, as part of a larger faculty/student teaching project, data describing the demographic, health problem and service utilization patterns of 183 newly sheltered homeless men (mean age = 42) seeking on-site nursing clinic services were collected and analyzed ....
Response to "Health and Service Utilization Patterns Among Homeless Men in Transition: Exploring the Need for On-Site, Shelter-Based Nursing Care"
Jan 01, 2001; ... We are pleased to respond to the study by Brush and Powers on the health status and health care service use patterns of homeless men in a transitional shelter. This article draws our attention to a very vulnerable, socially marginalized, and endemically transient population, and the efforts of ...
Measuring Attitudes Toward Persons With AIDS: The AAS-G as an Alternate Form of the AAS
Jan 01, 2001; ... For most of the score of years that the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has been with us, we have been concerned with the care of and attitudes toward AIDS patients. As the treatment and face of AIDS changes, not all of those suffering with the disease are considered patients. Many ...
Response to "Measuring Attitudes Toward Persons With AIDS: The AAS-G as an Alternate Form of the AAS"
Jan 01, 2001; ... During seven years of researching family transitions over the AIDS trajectory across the United States (Giacquinta, nee Stewart, 1989; 1990; Stewart, 1994), I encountered the gamut of attitudes depicted in the carefully researched, thoughtprovoking article by Froman and Owen. At one end of the ...
Editorial
Jan 01, 2001; ... Dear Readers, This issue of Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice is the last to be brought to you by the editorial team of Hyman, Lenz, Southerton, and Woog, two of whom (Hyman and Woog) were founding co-editors of the journal. It has been a long and interesting journey from the ...
The Concept of Nursing Presence: State of the Science
Jan 01, 2001; ... The concept of presence found its way into the nursing literature in the 1960s with the writings of Vaillot (1962, 1966). While its theoretical roots exist in the disciplines of religion and philosophy, nursing scholarship has been nurturing and developing the term over the last four decades ....
Response to "The Concept of Nursing Presence: State of the Science"
Jan 01, 2001; ... I am pleased to have been asked to respond to the challenging work by Tom Smith, "The concept of presence: State of the science." His article offers a critical analysis of spiritual, philosophical, and research literature with the purpose of synthesizing work on the concept from many sources. My ...