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2. "I feel broken": Chronicling burnout, mental health, and the limits of individual resilience in nursing.
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Akoo, Chaman, McMillan, Kimberly, Price, Sheri, Ingraham, Kenchera, Ayoub, Abby, Rolle Sands, Shamel, Shankland, Mylène, and Bourgeault, Ivy
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PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience , *PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout , *MENTAL health , *SABBATICAL leave , *QUALITATIVE research , *SEX distribution , *MEDICAL care , *WORK environment , *JUDGMENT sampling , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *THEMATIC analysis , *NURSES' attitudes , *JOB stress , *HEALTH facilities , *DATA analysis software , *COVID-19 pandemic , *PSYCHOLOGY of nurses , *EMPLOYMENT reentry - Abstract
Healthcare systems and health professionals are facing a litany of stressors that have been compounded by the pandemic, and consequently, this has further perpetuated suboptimal mental health and burnout in nursing. The purpose of this paper is to report select findings from a larger, national study exploring gendered experiences of mental health, leave of absence (LOA), and return to work from the perspectives of nurses and key stakeholders. Given the breadth of the data, this paper will focus exclusively on the qualitative results from 53 frontline Canadian nurses who were purposively recruited for their workplace insight. This paper focuses on the substantive theme of "Breaking Point," in which nurses articulated a multiplicity of stress points at the individual, organizational, and societal levels that amplified burnout and accelerated mental health LOA from the workplace. These findings exemplify the complexities that underlie nurses' mental health and burnout and highlight the urgent need for multipronged individual, organizational, and structural interventions. Robust and timely interventions are needed to restore the health of the nursing profession and sustain its future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Code poverty: An adaptation of the social‐ecological model to inform a more strategic direction toward nursing advocacy.
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Hodge, Lesley and Raymond, Christy
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HEALTH policy ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,WORK environment ,SOCIAL determinants of health ,MATHEMATICAL models ,SOCIAL values ,PRACTICAL politics ,INCOME ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,NURSES ,THEORY ,CONSUMER activism ,GOVERNMENT policy ,POVERTY ,NURSES' associations - Abstract
The purpose of this discussion paper is to explore how nurses can be strategically poised to advocate for needed policy change in support of greater income equality and other social determinants of health. We adapted Bronfenbrenner's social‐ecological model to highlight how four broad pervasive subsystems shape the opportunities that nurses have to engage in advocacy at the policy level. These subsystems include organizations (the microsystem), professional bodies (the mesosystem), public policies (the exosystem), and societal values (the macrosystem). On the basis of this adapted model, we recommend changes among modifiable elements of the microsystem and mesosystem that can help position nurses (ecologically and collectively) to advocate for public policy change and use examples from a Canadian context to illustrate these points. We believe that the ideas arising from this model can be widely used where policy action on the social determinants of health is needed to inform, guide, and frame change efforts and advocacy work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Decolonial, intersectional pedagogies in Canadian Nursing and Medical Education.
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Bhandal, Taqdir K., Browne, Annette J., Ahenakew, Cash, and Reimer‐Kirkham, Sheryl
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DIVERSITY & inclusion policies , *TEACHER-student relationships , *SCHOOL environment , *TEACHING methods , *SPIRITUALITY , *RESEARCH methodology , *CURRICULUM , *SOCIAL justice , *INTERVIEWING , *NURSING education , *EXPERIENCE , *ETHNOLOGY research , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *INTERSECTIONALITY , *STUDENTS , *PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation , *PARTICIPANT observation , *JUDGMENT sampling , *EMOTIONS , *MEDICAL education , *EDUCATIONAL outcomes - Abstract
Our intention is to contribute to the development of Canadian Nursing and Medical Education (NursMed) and efforts to redress deepening, intersecting health and social inequities. This paper addresses the following two research questions: (1) What are the ways in which Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies can inform Canadian NursMed Education with a focus on critically examining settler‐colonialism, health equity, and social justice? (2) What are the potential struggles and adaptations required to integrate Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies within Canadian NursMed Education in service of redressing intersecting health and social inequities? Briefly, Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies are philosophies of learning that encourage teachers and students to reflect on health through the lenses of settler‐colonialism, health equity, and social justice. Drawing on critical ethnographic research methods, we conducted in‐depth interviews with 25 faculty members and engaged in participant observation of classrooms in university‐based Canadian NursMed Education. The research findings are organized into three major themes, beginning with common institutional features influencing pedagogical approaches. The next set of findings addresses the complex strategies participants apply to integrate Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies. Lastly, the findings illustrate the emotional and spiritual toll some faculty members face when attempting to deliver Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies. We conclude that through the application of Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies teachers and students can support movements towards health equity, social justice, and unlearning/undoing settler‐colonialism. This study contributes new knowledge to stimulate dialog and action regarding the role of health professions education, specifically Nursing and Medicine as an upstream determinant of health in settler‐colonial nations such as Canada, United States, Australia, and New Zealand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Nurses as agents of disruption: Operationalizing a framework to redress inequities in healthcare access among Indigenous Peoples.
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Horrill, Tara C., Martin, Donna E., Lavoie, Josée G., and Schultz, Annette S. H.
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TRAUMA-informed care ,CULTURAL identity ,PSYCHIATRIC nursing ,HEALTH services accessibility ,TRANSCULTURAL medical care ,MEDICAL office nursing ,EMOTIONAL trauma ,DOMESTIC violence ,HEALTH status indicators ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,PRIMARY health care ,NURSING practice ,NURSE-patient relationships ,ABORIGINAL Canadians ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,MEDICAL care of indigenous peoples ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) - Abstract
Health equity is a global concern. Although health equity extends far beyond the equitable distribution of healthcare, equitable access to healthcare is essential to the achievement of health equity. In Canada, Indigenous Peoples experience inequities in health and healthcare access. Cultural safety and trauma‐ and violence‐informed care have been proposed as models of care to improve healthcare access, yet practitioners lack guidance on how to implement these models. In this paper, we build upon an existing framework of equity‐oriented care for primary healthcare settings by proposing strategies to guide nurses in operationalizing cultural safety and trauma‐ and violence‐informed care into nursing practice at the individual level. This component is one strategy to redress inequitable access to care among Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We conceptualize barriers to accessing healthcare as intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural. We then define three domains for nursing action: practicing reflexivity, prioritizing relationships, and considering the context. We have applied this expanded framework within the context of Indigenous Peoples in Canada as a way of illustrating specific concepts and focusing our argument; however, this framework is relevant to other groups experiencing marginalizing conditions and inequitable access to healthcare, and thus is applicable to many areas of nursing practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. Relational ethics of delirium care: Findings from a hospice ethnography.
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Wright, David Kenneth, Brajtman, Susan, and Macdonald, Mary Ellen
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DELIRIUM ,ETHICS ,HOSPICE care ,INTERVIEWING ,RESEARCH methodology ,NURSE-patient relationships ,NURSING ethics ,NURSING specialties ,ETHNOLOGY research ,HOSPICE nurses ,SOCIAL support ,THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
Delirium, a common syndrome in terminally ill people, presents specific challenges to a good death in end‐of‐life care. This paper examines the relational engagement between hospice nurses and their patients in a context of end‐of‐life delirium. Ethnographic fieldwork spanning 15 months was conducted at a freestanding residential hospice in eastern Canada. A shared value system was apparent within the nursing community of hospice; patients’ comfort and dignity were deemed most at stake and therefore commanded nurses’ primary attention. This overarching commitment to comfort and dignity shaped all of nursing practice in this hospice, including practices related to end‐of‐life delirium. The findings of this study elaborate the ways in which hospice nurses interpreted and responded to the discomfort of their patients in delirium, as well as the efforts they made to understand their patients’ subjective experiences and to connect with them in supportive ways. In addition to what is already known about clinical assessment and treatment of delirium in palliative care settings, the findings of this study offer points of reflection for nurses anywhere who are contending with the relational challenges that delirium presents in end‐of‐life care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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7. A very human being: Sister Marie Simone Roach, 1922-2016.
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Villeneuve, Michael J, Tschudin, Verena, Storch, Janet, Fowler, Marsha D M, and Peter, Elizabeth
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LEADERS ,NURSES ,CARING ,SCHOLARLY method ,MEDICAL research personnel ,HISTORY of nursing ,PHILOSOPHY of nursing ,NURSING ethics ,HISTORY - Abstract
Sister (Sr.) Marie Simone Roach, of the Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, died at the Motherhouse on 2 July 2016 at the age of 93, leaving behind a rich legacy of theoretical and practical work in the areas of care, caring and nursing ethics. She was a humble soul whose deep and scholarly thinking thrust her onto the global nursing stage where she will forever be tied to a central concept in nursing, caring, through her Six Cs of Caring model. In Canada, she was the lead architect of the Canadian Nurses Association's first code of ethics, and her influence on revisions to it is still profound more than 35 years later. In this paper, four global scholars in nursing and ethics are invited to reflect on Sr. Simone's contribution to nursing and health‐care, and we link her work to nursing and health‐care going forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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8. Social inclusion/exclusion as matters of social (in)justice: a call for nursing action.
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Yanicki, Sharon M, Kushner, Kaysi E, and Reutter, Linda
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CITIZENSHIP ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,HEALTH services accessibility ,HEALTH status indicators ,NURSES ,NURSING ethics ,SOCIAL justice ,OCCUPATIONAL roles - Abstract
Social inclusion/exclusion involves just/unjust social relations and social structures enabling or constraining opportunities for participation and health. In this paper, social inclusion/exclusion is explored as a dialectic. Three discourses - discourses on recognition, capabilities, and equality and citizenship - are identified within Canadian literature. Each discourse highlights a different view of the injustices leading to social exclusion and the conditions supporting inclusion and social justice. An Integrated Framework for Social Justice that incorporates the three discourses is developed and used to critique the dominant focus on distributive justice within foundational Canadian nursing documents. We propose a broader conceptualization of social (in)justice that includes both relational and structural dimensions. Opportunities for multilevel interventions to promote social justice are identified. This framework is congruent with nursing's moral imperative to promote health equity and with the multiple roles played by nurses to promote social justice in everyday practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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9. Applying a Foucauldian lens to the Canadian code of ethics for registered nurses as a discursive mechanism for nurses professional identity.
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Purvis JK
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- Humans, Codes of Ethics, Canada, Ethics, Nursing, Nurses
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This study examines the Canadian Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses as a discursive mechanism for shaping nurses' professional identity using a Foucauldian lens. Nurses are considered essential in healthcare, yet the nursing profession has struggled to be recognized for its discipline-specific knowledge and expertise and, as such, has remained the subject of and subject to the dominant discourses within healthcare and society generally. Developing a professional identity in nursing begins after the necessary education and training are achieved and embodies the profession's history, values, code of ethics, and expectations of the profession that distinguish it from other professions. Since nurses' professional identity is shaped through discourse, it raises the question of whether there are spaces to reconceptualize nurses' subject position within health care. Since professional identity is considered the embodiment of knowledge and practice, the code of ethics bears examination both for its effect on nurses' professional identity and as a potential site from which to challenge hegemonic assumptions. This article discusses the concept of professional identity in nursing and its development through the discursive formations in the code of ethics. The sources of power/knowledge are examined as both mechanisms of control and as spaces for change., (© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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- 2023
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10. Understanding access to healthcare among Indigenous peoples: A comparative analysis of biomedical and postcolonial perspectives.
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Horrill, Tara, McMillan, Diana E., Schultz, Annette S. H., and Thompson, Genevieve
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COMPARATIVE studies ,HEALTH services accessibility ,INDIGENOUS peoples ,MEDICAL quality control ,TRANSCULTURAL medical care ,MEDICAL care of indigenous peoples ,CULTURAL identity - Abstract
As nursing professionals, we believe access to healthcare is fundamental to health and that it is a determinant of health. Therefore, evidence suggesting access to healthcare is problematic for many Indigenous peoples is concerning. While biomedical perspectives underlie our current understanding of access, considering alternate perspectives could expand our awareness of and ability to address this issue. In this paper, we critique how access to healthcare is understood through a biomedical lens, how a postcolonial theoretical lens can extend that understanding, and the subsequent implications this alternative view raises for the nursing profession. Drawing on peer‐reviewed published and gray literature concerning healthcare access and Indigenous peoples to inform this critique, we focus on the underlying theoretical lens shaping our current understanding of access. A postcolonial analysis provides a way of understanding healthcare as a social space and social relationship, presenting a unique perspective on access to healthcare. The novelty of this finding is of particular importance for the profession of nursing, as we are well situated to influence these social aspects, improving access to healthcare services broadly, and among Indigenous peoples specifically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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11. Rationing nurses: Realities, practicalities, and nursing leadership theories.
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Fast, Olive and Rankin, Janet
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BUDGET ,COST control ,DISCOURSE analysis ,HOSPITALS ,WORKING hours ,INTERVIEWING ,LABOR productivity ,LEADERSHIP ,RESEARCH methodology ,NURSE administrators ,NURSING services administration ,RESPONSIBILITY ,TECHNOLOGY ,ETHNOLOGY research - Abstract
In this paper, we examine the practicalities of nurse managers’ work. We expose how managers’ commitments to transformational leadership are undermined by the rationing practices and informatics of hospital reform underpinned by the ideas of new public management. Using institutional ethnography, we gathered data in a Canadian hospital. We began by interviewing and observing frontline leaders, nurse managers, and expanded our inquiry to include interviews with other nurses, staffing clerks, and administrators whose work intersected with that of nurse managers. We learned how nurse managers’ responsibility for staffing is accomplished within tightening budgets and a burgeoning suite of technologies that direct decisions about whether or not there are enough nurses. Our inquiry explicates how technologies organize nurse managers to put aside their professional knowledge. We describe professionally committed nurse leaders attempting to activate transformational leadership and show how their intentions are subsumed within information systems. Seen in light of our analysis, transformational leadership is an idealized concept within which managers’ responsibilities are shaped to conform to institutional purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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12. Palliative sedation and medical assistance in dying: Distinctly different or simply semantics?
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Booker, Reanne and Bruce, Anne
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ANESTHESIA ,ASSISTED suicide ,BEREAVEMENT ,CAREGIVERS ,CONSCIOUSNESS ,MEDICAL care ,PALLIATIVE treatment ,PATIENTS ,QUALITY assurance ,SEMANTICS ,TERMINAL care ,PATIENT autonomy - Abstract
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and palliative sedation (PS) are both legal options in Canada that may be considered by patients experiencing intolerable and unmanageable suffering. A contentious, lively debate has been ongoing in the literature regarding the similarities and differences between MAiD and PS. The aim of this paper is to explore the propositions that MAiD and PS are essentially similar and conversely that MAiD and PS are distinctly different. The relevance of such a debate is apparent for clinicians and patients alike. Understanding the complex and multi‐faceted nuances between PS and MAiD allows patients and caregivers to make more informed decisions pertaining to end‐of‐life care. It is hoped that this paper will also serve to foster further debate and consideration of the issues associated with PS and MAiD with a view to improve patient care and the quality of both living and dying in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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13. The hierarchy of evidence in advanced wound care: The social organization of limitations in knowledge.
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Waters, Nicola and Rankin, Janet M.
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CHRONIC wounds & injuries ,CLINICAL medicine ,DECISION making ,HEALTH facility administration ,HEALTH services administrators ,INTELLECT ,INTERVIEWING ,LABOR productivity ,EVALUATION of medical care ,NURSES ,PARTICIPANT observation ,POLICY sciences ,RESEARCH funding ,SOCIAL case work ,WOUND healing ,TRAUMATOLOGY diagnosis ,WOUND care ,ETHNOLOGY research ,EVIDENCE-based medicine ,SOCIAL services case management ,PATIENT-centered care ,PSYCHOLOGICAL factors ,THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
In this article, we discuss how we used institutional ethnography (Institutional ethnography as practice, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD and 2006) to map out powerful ruling relations that organize nurses' wound care work. In recent years, the growing number of people living with wounds that heal slowly or not at all has presented substantial challenges for those managing the demands on Canada's publicly insured health‐care system. In efforts to address this burden, Canadian health‐care administrators and policy‐makers rely on scientific evidence about how wounds heal and what treatments are most effective. Advanced wound care exemplifies the growing authorization of particular forms of evidence that change the ways in which nurses come to know about and conduct their work. The focus of this paper's nursing inquiry is a critique of registered nurses' wound work as it arises within the established uptake of scientific evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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14. Beyond technology, drips, and machines: Moral distress in PICU nurses caring for end‐of‐life patients.
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Gagnon, Michelle and Kunyk, Diane
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DEATH & psychology ,INTENSIVE care units ,ETHICS ,INTENSIVE care nursing ,NURSES' attitudes ,JOB stress ,PEDIATRICS ,PEDIATRIC nursing ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,DATA analysis software ,CONTENT analysis ,PSYCHOLOGICAL distress ,SECONDARY analysis ,CHILDREN - Abstract
Moral distress is an experience of profound moral compromise with deeply impactful and potentially long‐term consequences to the individual. Critical care areas are fraught with ethical issues, and end‐of‐life care has been associated with numerous incidences of moral distress among nurses. One such area where the dichotomy of life and death seems to be at its sharpest is in the pediatric intensive care unit. The purpose of this study was to understand the moral distress experiences of pediatric intensive care nurses when caring for pediatric patients at the end of life. A secondary analysis was undertaken of seven transcripts from registered nurses across six Canadian pediatric intensive care units and produced three themes: under prioritization of child patient dignity, burden of insider knowledge, and environmental constraints on nursing roles and responsibilities. When caring for patients at the end of life, nurses experienced moral distress when a dignified death was not realized. Furthermore, despite interprofessional collaboration efforts in Canada, the concept of silo mentality persists and contributes to moral distress. Organizational involvement is needed to address moral distress in pediatric intensive care nurses both to achieve a dignified death for child patients and in addressing silo mentality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. Toward a moral commitment: Exposing the covert mechanisms of racism in the nursing discipline.
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Louie‐Poon, Samantha, Hilario, Carla, Scott, Shannon D., and Olson, Joanne
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RACISM ,ETHICS ,SOCIAL justice ,CRITICAL theory ,PHILOSOPHY of nursing ,COMMITMENT (Psychology) - Abstract
Recent Canadian and international events have sparked dialogue and action to address racism within the nursing discipline. While the urgency to seek and implement antiracist solutions demands the attention of nurses, we contend that a contemporary analysis of the mechanisms that continue to perpetuate racism within nursing's theoretical foundation is required first. This study reconsiders the perceived functions of racism within the current state of nursing concepts and theories. In particular, we expose the role that covert racism plays by inadvertently sustaining racism through nursing's theoretical foundation, and how this process strengthens white supremacy. We argue that, in the absence of exposing these covert mechanisms, the development of solutions will be futile in dismantling racism. By making visible the covert mechanisms of racism within nursing's theoretical foundation, we attempt to establish an opportunity for the nursing discipline to dismantle its racist foundation and engage in sustained antiracist action. Lastly, this study demonstrates the need to equip the discipline with a moral commitment to antiracism in an effort to emancipate nursing from its racist legacies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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16. "Go back to your country": Exploring nurses' experiences of workplace conflict involving patients and patients' family members in two Canadian cities.
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Boateng, Godfred O. and Brown, Kyrah K.
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PREVENTION of violence in the workplace ,WORK environment ,VIOLENCE in the workplace ,NURSES' attitudes ,WORK ,DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) ,MEDICAL personnel ,INTERVIEWING ,NURSE-patient relationships ,PATIENTS' families ,CONFLICT (Psychology) ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,QUALITATIVE research ,STEREOTYPES ,CONFLICT management ,EXPERIENTIAL learning ,PATIENT-family relations ,NURSES ,SEX crimes ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation ,ETHNIC groups ,AGGRESSION (Psychology) - Abstract
This study explores nurses' experiences of workplace conflict with patients and their family members, how it differs by ethnic/racial identity, and highlights the coping strategies engaged to lessen these conflicts. Using a qualitative research design, this study draws on phenomenology and in‐depth interviews of 66 registered nurses and registered practical nurses from multiple sites in two Canadian cities to explore the experiences of nurses with multiple marginalized identities in relation to nurse–patient and nurse–patient's family member conflicts in direct care practice. The results show that horizontal conflicts, especially, ones involving nurses, patients, and their family members are quite pervasive in the nursing profession. Direct care nurses, especially, ethnic minorities relative to majority groups experience excessive physical assaults, verbal aggressive behaviors, racial stereotyping and discrimination, and sexual harassment from patients and patients' family members. Institutional support through policies and practices designed to de‐escalate aggressive behavior from patients and their family members were identified as important support systems. We conclude that policies aimed at creating a safe and strong health‐care system call for holding patients and th'eir family members legally responsible for uncivil and aggressive behavior against caregivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. A critical exploration of nurses' perceptions of access to oncology care among Indigenous peoples: Results of a national survey.
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Horrill, Tara C., Martin, Donna E., Lavoie, Josée G., and Schultz, Annette S. H.
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TUMOR treatment ,PREVENTION of racism ,ONCOLOGY nursing ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,NURSES' attitudes ,HEALTH services accessibility ,SOCIAL determinants of health ,RESEARCH methodology ,COMMUNICATION barriers ,HEALTH status indicators ,EARLY detection of cancer ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,NURSE-patient relationships ,ABORIGINAL Canadians ,NURSES ,RESEARCH funding ,DISCOURSE analysis ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,DATA analysis software ,MEDICAL care of indigenous peoples ,CANCER patient medical care ,TRANSPORTATION ,HEALTH promotion - Abstract
Inequities in access to oncology care among Indigenous peoples in Canada are well documented. Access to oncology care is mediated by a range of factors; however, emerging evidence suggests that healthcare providers, including nurses, play a significant role in shaping healthcare access. The purpose of this study was to critically examine access to oncology care among Indigenous peoples in Canada from the perspective of oncology nurses. Guided by postcolonial theoretical perspectives, interpretive descriptive and critical discourse analysis methodologies informed study design and data analysis. Oncology nurses were recruited from across Canada to complete an online survey (n = 78). Nurses identified a range of barriers experienced by Indigenous peoples when accessing oncology care, yet located these barriers primarily at the individual and systems levels. Nurses perceived themselves as mediators of access to oncology care; however, their efforts to facilitate access to care were constrained by the dominance of biomedicine within healthcare. Nurses' constructions of access to oncology care highlight the embedded narrative of individualism within nursing practice and the relative invisibility of racism as a determinant of equitable access to care among Indigenous peoples. This suggests a need for oncology nurses to better understand and incorporate structural determinants of health perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. Writing activities and the hidden curriculum in nursing education.
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Mitchell, Kim M., McMillan, Diana E., Lobchuk, Michelle M., and Nickel, Nathan C.
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SCHOOL environment ,CURRICULUM ,INTERVIEWING ,BACCALAUREATE nursing education ,NURSING education ,QUALITATIVE research ,CLINICAL medicine ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RESEARCH funding ,WRITTEN communication ,NURSING students - Abstract
Nursing programs are complex systems that articulate values of relationality and holism, while developing curriculums that privilege metric‐driven competency‐based pedagogies. This study used an interpretive approach to analyze interviews from 20 nursing students at two Canadian Baccalaureate programs to understand how nursing's educational context, including its hidden curriculums, impacted student writing activities. We viewed this qualitative data through the lens of activity theory. Students spoke about navigating a rigid writing context. This resulted in a hyper‐focus on "figuring out" the teacher with minimal focus on the act of writing. Students used a form of behavioral "code‐switching" to maximize their grade while considering how their "valuing" of the assignment fit within their writing motives. Hidden curriculum messages taught students that academic success was assured whether their writing mirrored instructor preferences. Instructional practices of rigidity reinforced unequal social conditions for some minority students. Faculty can counteract the impact of the hidden curriculum through encouragement of choice and independent thinking about writing activities. Acknowledging power relationships and their influence on how students navigate writing assignments and nursing discourse may relieve pressures on students who fear penalties for countering norms and result in a more flexible learning environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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19. Nurses' engagement with power, voice and politics amidst restructuring efforts.
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McMillan, Kim and Perron, Amélie
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ACADEMIC medical centers ,CONTROL (Psychology) ,INTERVIEWING ,PHENOMENOLOGY ,PSYCHOLOGY of nurses ,ORGANIZATIONAL change ,PRACTICAL politics ,RESEARCH funding ,HUMAN voice - Abstract
Change is inevitable, and increasingly rapid and continuous in healthcare as organizations strive to adapt, improve and innovate. Organizational change challenges healthcare providers because it restructures how and when patient care delivery is provided, changing ways in which nurses must carry out their work. The aim of this doctoral study was to explore frontline nurses' experiences of living with rapid and continuous organizational change. A critical hermeneutic approach was utilized. Participants described feeling voiceless, powerless and apolitical amidst rapid and continuous organizational changes which fuelled apathy, cynicism and disengagement from the organization. However, critical analysis of the data showed that nurses actively engaged with power, voice and politics through resistant and transgressive behaviours in micro‐ethical moments of practice. There is a need to reconceptualize the concepts of voice, power and politics in nursing as there is dissonance between nurses' beliefs about these concepts and what they are enacting in practice. Recognizing their enactment of power, voice and political agency at the micro‐level may empower nurses. Empowerment would mitigate the high levels of reports of powerlessness experienced in practice during organizational changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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20. Caring for indigenous families in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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Wright, Amy L., Ballantyne, Marilyn, and Wahoush, Olive
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ABORIGINAL Canadians ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,INTERVIEWING ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL personnel ,NEONATAL intensive care ,NURSES ,PATIENTS ,RESEARCH funding ,QUALITATIVE research ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,THEMATIC analysis ,NEONATAL intensive care units ,PATIENTS' families ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Inequitable access to health care, social inequities, and racist and discriminatory care has resulted in the trend toward poorer health outcomes for Indigenous infants and their families when compared to non‐Indigenous families in Canada. How Indigenous mothers experience care during an admission of their infant to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has implications for future health‐seeking behaviors which may influence infant health outcomes. Nurses are well positioned to promote positive health care interactions and improve health outcomes by effectively meeting the needs of Indigenous families. This qualitative study was guided by interpretive description and the Two‐Eyed Seeing framework and aimed to understand how Indigenous mothers experience accessing and using the health care system for their infants. Data were collected by way of interviews and a discussion group with self‐identifying Indigenous mothers of infants less than two years of age living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Data underwent thematic analysis, identifying nursing strategies to support positive health care interactions and promote the health and wellness of Indigenous infants and their families. Building relationships, providing holistic care, and taking a trauma‐informed approach to the involvement of child protection services are three key strategies that nurses can use to positively impact health care experiences for Indigenous families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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21. 'No other alternative than to compromise': Experiences of midwives/nurses providing care in the context of scarce resources.
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Boakye PN
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- Pregnancy, Female, Humans, Morals, Africa, Canada, Qualitative Research, Midwifery, Nurse Midwives
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Midwives and nurses play a critical role in safeguarding the lives of women in resource-constrained African countries. Working within the context of scarce resources may undermine their moral agency and hinder their ability to care. The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of resource scarcity on midwifery and nursing care and practice. A critical ethnography was conducted in the obstetric department of three tertiary-level facilities in Ghana. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 30 midwives and nurses and semistructured interviews, field notes and documentary materials were used to generate in-depth understanding. Ethical approval was granted from Canada and Ghana and written, and ongoing informed consent was obtained from the participants. Five conceptual themes depicting the impact of scarce resources on midwifery and nursing care were discovered: compromised care, constrained care, dehumanized care, missed care and disengaged care. Improving the maternal health of women and averting avoidable maternal morbidity and mortality require governments and institutions to invest in health infrastructure that will support the delivery of ethical and safe midwifery care for women in their most vulnerable period., (© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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- 2022
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22. Bedside nurses’ roles in discharge collaboration in general internal medicine: Disconnected, disempowered and devalued?
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Goldman, Joanne, MacMillan, Kathleen, Kitto, Simon, Wu, Robert, Silver, Ivan, and Reeves, Scott
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ACADEMIC medical centers ,COMMUNICATION ,CONTENT analysis ,HEALTH care teams ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,INTERVIEWING ,LEADERSHIP ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL quality control ,PATIENT safety ,RESEARCH funding ,ETHNOLOGY research ,DISCHARGE planning ,HOSPITAL nursing staff - Abstract
Collaboration among nurses and other healthcare professionals is needed for effective hospital discharge planning. However, interprofessional interactions and practices related to discharge vary within and across hospitals. These interactions are influenced by the ways in which healthcare professionals’ roles are being shaped by hospital discharge priorities. This study explored the experience of bedside nurses’ interprofessional collaboration in relation to discharge in a general medicine unit. An ethnographic approach was employed to obtain an in‐depth insight into the perceptions and practices of nurses and other healthcare professionals regarding collaborative practices around discharge. Sixty‐five hours of observations was undertaken, and 23 interviews were conducted with nurses and other healthcare professionals. According to our results, bedside nurses had limited engagement in interprofessional collaboration and discharge planning. This was apparent by bedside nurses’ absence from morning rounds, one‐way flow of information from rounds to the bedside nurses following rounds, and limited opportunities for interaction with other healthcare professionals and decision‐making during the day. The disconnection, disempowerment and devaluing of bedside nurses in patient discharge planning has implications for quality of care and nursing work. Study findings are positioned within previous work on nurse–physician interactions and the current context of nursing care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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23. Textually mediated discourses in Canadian news stories: Situating nurses’ salaries as the problem.
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Urban, Ann‐Marie
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DISCOURSE analysis ,HOSPITALS ,MASS media ,NEWSPAPERS ,NURSING career counseling ,OCCUPATIONAL prestige ,WAGES - Abstract
The aim of this article is to elucidate how nurses are positioned in Canadian news stories regarding their salaries. While the image of nursing in mass media has been widely studied, few studies explore how nurses are constructed in news stories. Drawing on ideas from institutional ethnography together with discourse analysis, this discussion highlights public textual discourses about nurses’ salaries in Canadian news stories. The media discourse was found to distort the issues by focusing attention on nurses. Recognizing how these textual distortions mediate and construct messages is important in understanding how nurses and their work are constructed in the media. This discussion seeks to inform readers about how nurses are situated within commonly circulated discourses in the media. It also seeks to contribute to the literature about the nurse's image and how nurses and their work are portrayed in the public realm. It concludes by recommending increased awareness about how nurses are talked about in mass communication and the need to disrupt these messages and their underlying assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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24. The influence of democratic racism in nursing inquiry.
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Hilario, Carla T., Browne, Annette J., and McFadden, Alysha
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DENIAL (Psychology) ,NURSING ,CULTURAL pluralism ,PRACTICAL politics ,RACISM ,HEALTH equity - Abstract
Neoliberal ideology and exclusionary policies based on racialized identities characterize the current contexts in North America and Western Europe. Nursing knowledge cannot be abstracted from social, political and historical contexts; the task of examining the influence of race and racial ideologies on disciplinary knowledge and inquiry therefore remains an important task. Contemporary analyses of the role and responsibility of the discipline in addressing race‐based health and social inequities as a focus of nursing inquiry remain underdeveloped. In this article, we examine nursing's engagement with ideas about race and racism and explore the ways in which nursing knowledge and inquiry have been influenced by race‐based ideological discourses. Drawing on Henry and Tator's framework of
democratic racism , we consider how strategic discursive responses—the discourses of individualism, multiculturalism, colour‐blindness, political correctness and denial—have been deployed within nursing knowledge and inquiry to reinforce the belief in an essentially fair and just society while avoiding the need to acknowledge the persistence of racist discourses and ideologies. Greater theoretical, conceptual and methodological clarity regarding race, racialization and related concepts in nursing inquiry is needed to address health and social inequities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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25. 'Philosophy Lost': Inquiring into the effects of the corporatized university and its implications for graduate nursing education.
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Springer, Rusla Anne and Clinton, Michael Edward
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ORGANIZATIONS & ethics ,CONFLICT of interests ,CORPORATE culture ,CORPORATIONS ,CRITICAL thinking ,ENDOWMENT of research ,SCHOLARLY method ,MEDICAL teaching personnel ,MEDICAL practice ,PHILOSOPHY of nursing ,NURSING research ,NURSING school faculty ,PHARMACEUTICAL industry ,RESEARCH ethics ,TEACHING ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,GRADUATE nursing education ,INTELLECTUAL freedom - Abstract
Drawing on a comprehensive, pan-national analysis of the corporatization of Canadian universities, as well as the notions of 'parrhesiastic' mentorship and practice, the authors examine the effects of the corporatized university, its implications for graduate nursing education and nursing's relative silence on the subject. With the preponderance of business interests, the increasing dependence of universities on industry funding, cults of efficiency, research intensivity, and the pursuit of profit so prevalent in today's corporatized university, we argue that philosophical presuppositions so crucial to critical teaching, research, and reflection on nursing as a discipline are troublingly losing ground. We lament the erosion and fragmentation of philosophy, politics, and ethics as foundations for graduate education, which are increasingly perceived as less valuable, problematic, and in some cases, even burdensome. The effect of corporatization is the suppression of the critical engagement required of faculty in the everyday workings of institutions. We argue that, when the ideals of intellectual freedom, academic responsibility, duty, and obligation, as supported by philosophical thought, are smothered by the normalizing power of corporatized research agendas, philosophical approaches to inquiry and knowledge development become marginalized as scholars find themselves floundering in the face of a seeming 'philosophy lost'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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26. Structural impact on gendered expectations and exemptions for family caregivers in hospice palliative home care.
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Sutherland, Nisha, Ward‐Griffin, Catherine, McWilliam, Carol, and Stajduhar, Kelli
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CAREGIVERS ,DECISION making ,DISCOURSE analysis ,FEMINIST criticism ,HOME care services ,HOME nursing ,HOSPICE care ,INTERVIEWING ,MANAGEMENT ,SCIENTIFIC observation ,PALLIATIVE treatment ,PAMPHLETS ,RESEARCH evaluation ,RESEARCH funding ,SEX distribution ,ETHNOLOGY research ,THEMATIC analysis ,FAMILY attitudes - Abstract
Evidence of gender differences in the amount and type of care provided by family caregivers in hospice palliative home care suggests potential inequities in health and health care experiences. As part of a larger critical ethnographic study examining gender relations among clients with cancer, their family caregivers and primary nurses, this article describes gendered expectations and exemptions for family caregivers within the sociopolitical context of end‐of‐life at home. Data were collected from in‐depth interviews (n = 25), observations of agency home care visits (n = 9) and analyses of policy and home care agency documents (n = 12). Employing a critical feminist lens, a gender‐based analysis revealed that structural discourses emphasizing an artificial divide between public and private spheres constructed end‐of‐life at home as private and apolitical. Associated with care of home and family, women were most impacted by these public/private discourses underpinning neoliberal values of cost‐efficiency. Findings suggest that a critical perspective is needed to assist policy makers and healthcare providers to view how caregiver experiences are shaped by structures that control the availability of resources. Thus, instead of focusing on caregivers' deficits, interventions should be directed at the social, political and economic conditions that shape gendered experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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27. Challenging 'girls only' publicly funded human papillomavirus vaccination programmes.
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Law, Victoria G and Gustafson, Diana L
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HEALTH policy ,SEXUAL health ,SEXISM ,SOCIAL justice ,GOVERNMENT aid ,HUMAN papillomavirus vaccines ,THEORY - Abstract
This analysis examines the ‘girls only’ policy for publicly funded human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes. Current funding policy in most Canadian provinces covers ‘girls only’ with the goal of reducing mortality and morbidity rates of HPV‐related cervical cancer. Recent studies indicate increasing rates of other HPV‐related cancers among cisgender men and women. The HPV vaccine is proving effective against some of these cancers. Statistics on HPV vaccine uptake among individuals with different gender expressions are scarce. Critics argue that a ‘girls only’ HPV vaccine policy is inequitable. We add to this critique by reflecting on the gender binary embedded in such policies and produced through epidemiological studies that attend differentially to females, reinforcing exclusionary practices that leave out those who form their gender identities across the spectrum. We then draw on deontological (duties‐based) and utilitarian (utility‐based) frameworks to show that these gendered policies are also unethical. These challenges to the assumptions underlying ‘girls only’ immunization programmes have implications for nurses and the healthcare system. If we are to advance equitable and ethical health outcomes, we entreat nurses as a collective to mobilize the public to lobby federal, provincial and territorial governments to fund more inclusive HPV vaccination policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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28. Disciplining virtue: investigating the discourses of opioid addiction in nursing.
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Kunyk, Diane, Milner, Margaret, and Overend, Alissa
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PROFESSIONS ,ANALGESICS ,CHARACTER ,CORRUPTION ,DISCOURSE analysis ,DRUG addiction ,ETHICS ,LABOR discipline ,MASS media ,CASE studies ,NARCOTICS ,NURSES ,ORGANIZATIONAL behavior ,LEGAL procedure ,PUBLIC opinion ,RESEARCH funding ,PROFESSIONAL standards ,THEMATIC analysis ,NURSES' associations ,IMPAIRED medical personnel - Abstract
Two nurses diagnosed with opioid addiction launched legal action after being found guilty of unprofessional conduct due to addiction‐related behaviors. When covered by the media, their cases sparked both public and legal controversies. We are curious about the broader discursive framings that led to these strong reactions, and analyze the underlying structures of knowledge and power that shape the issue of opioid addiction in the profession of nursing through a critical discourse analysis of popular media, legal blogs and hearing tribunals. We argue that addiction in nursing is framed as personal choice, as a failure in the moral character of the nurses, as decontextualized from addiction as disease arguments, and as an individualized issue devoid of contextual factors leading to addiction. Our investigation offers a critical case study of a nursing regulatory body that upheld popular assumptions of addiction as an autonomous, rational choice replete with individual‐based consequences – a framing that is inconsistent with evidence‐based practice in health‐care. We put forth this critical interrogation to open up possibilities for counterdiscourses that may promote more nuanced and effective responses to the issue of addiction in nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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29. The business of managing nurses' substance-use problems.
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Ross CA, Jakubec SL, Berry NS, and Smye V
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- Anthropology, Cultural, Canada, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Humans, Evidence-Based Practice standards, Nurses psychology, Substance-Related Disorders therapy
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Nurses' experiences in, and the overall effectiveness of, widely used alternative-to-discipline programs to manage nurses' substance-use problems have not been adequately scrutinized. We uncovered the conflicted official and experiential ways of knowing one such alternative-to-discipline program in a Canadian province. We explicated this conflict through an institutional ethnography analysis. Ethnographic data from interviews with 12 nurses who were enrolled in an alternative-to-discipline treatment program and three program administrators, as well as institutional texts, were analyzed to explore how institutional practices and power relations co-ordinated and managed nurses' experiences. Analysis revealed the acritical acceptance of a standardized program not based on current norms of practice. Potential and actual conflicts of interest, power imbalances, and prevailing corporate interests were rife. Nurses were not afforded the same rights to quality ethical health care as other citizens. 'Expert' physicians' knowledge was privileged while nurses' knowledge was subordinated. Conclusions were that regulatory bodies cannot rely on the taken-for-granted standardized treatment model in widespread use. Individualized treatment alternatives reflecting current, scientific evidence must be offered to nurses, and nurses' knowledge, expertise, and experiences need to be included in decision-making processes in these programs., (© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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- 2020
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30. Your blues ain't like mine: considering integrative antiracism in HIV prevention research with black men who have sex with men in Canada and the United States.
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Nelson, LaRon E., Walker, Ja'Nina J., DuBois, Steve N., and Giwa, Sulaimon
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HIV prevention ,GAY men ,CINAHL database ,PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,MEDLINE ,RACISM ,RELIGION ,SPIRITUALITY ,SYSTEMATIC reviews - Abstract
Evidence-based interventions have been developed and used to prevent HIV infections among black men who have sex with men ( MSM) in Canada and the United States; however, the degree to which interventions address racism and other interlocking oppressions that influence HIV vulnerability is not well known. We utilize integrative antiracism to guide a review of HIV prevention intervention studies with black MSM and to determine how racism and religious oppression are addressed in the current intervention evidence base. We searched CINAHL, PsychInfo, MEDLINE and the CDC compendium of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions and identified seventeen interventions. Three interventions targeted black MSM, yet only one intervention addressed racism, religious oppression, cultural assets and religious assets. Most interventions' samples included low numbers of black MSM. More research is needed on interventions that address racism and religious oppression on HIV vulnerability among black MSM. Future research should focus on explicating mechanisms by which multiple oppressions impact HIV vulnerability. We recommend the development and integration of social justice tools for nursing practice that aid in addressing the impacts of racism and other oppressions on HIV vulnerability of black MSM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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31. Applying the concept of structural empowerment to interactions between families and home‐care nurses.
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Funk, Laura M., Stajduhar, Kelli I., Giesbrecht, Melissa, Cloutier, Denise, Williams, Allison, and Wolse, Faye
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CAREGIVERS ,CONFIDENCE ,FIELDWORK (Educational method) ,HOME care services ,HOME nursing ,HUMANITY ,INFORMED consent (Medical law) ,INTERVIEWING ,MEDICAL personnel ,NURSES ,PATIENT advocacy ,RESEARCH funding ,SELF-efficacy ,ETHNOLOGY research ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,HUMAN research subjects ,PATIENTS' families ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,FIELD notes (Science) - Abstract
Interpretations of family carer empowerment in much nursing research, and in home‐care practice and policy, rarely attend explicitly to families' choice or control about the nature, extent or length of their involvement, or control over the impact on their own health. In this article, structural empowerment is used as an analytic lens to examine home‐care nurses' interactions with families in one Western Canadian region. Data were collected from 75 hrs of fieldwork in 59 interactions (18 nurses visiting 16 families) and interviews with 12 nurses and 11 family carers. Generally, nurses prioritized client empowerment, and their practice with families appeared oriented to supporting their role and needs as carers (i.e. rather than as unique individuals beyond the caring role), and reinforcing the caring role through validation and recognition. Although families generally expressed appreciation for these interactions, a structural empowerment lens illustrates how the broad context of home care shapes the interpretation and practice of empowerment in ways that can, paradoxically, be disempowering for families. Opportunities to effectively support family choice and control when a client is being cared for at home are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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32. Shades of gray: Conscientious objection in medical assistance in dying.
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Pesut B, Thorne S, and Greig M
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- Canada, Humans, Conscientious Refusal to Treat, Ethics, Nursing, Medical Assistance ethics, Nurse's Role psychology, Suicide, Assisted
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With the advent of legalized medical assistance in dying [MAiD] in Canada in 2016, nursing is facing intriguing new ethical and theoretical challenges. Among them is the concept of conscientious objection, which was built into the legislation as a safeguard to protect the rights of healthcare workers who feel they cannot participate in something that feels morally or ethically wrong. In this paper, we consider the ethical complexity that characterizes nurses' participation in MAiD and propose strategies to support nurses' moral reflection and imagination as they seek to make sense of their decision to participate or not. Deconstructing the multiple and sometimes conflicting ethical and professional obligations inherent in nursing in such a context, we consider ways in which nurses can sustain their role as critically reflective moral agents within a context of a relational practice, serving the diverse needs of patients, families, and communities, as Canadian society continues to evolve within this new way of engaging with matters of living and dying., (© 2019 The Authors. Nursing Inquiry Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
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- 2020
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