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The objective is to understand the meaning of care for people with Alzheimer's disease experienced by women, caregivers and health workers, members of community mutual help groups. Study based on the ontology of the experience of Maurice Merleau-Ponty based on the notion of the proper body. It is unveiled by the participation of 12 women, family caregivers and health workers, members of community mutual help groups. The production of experiential descriptions took place in three Focus Group meetings, whose resulting material was submitted to the Ambiguity Analysis. The participants unveiled sensitive and socioanthropological aspects of their lives, by resuming a horizon of the past and future perspectives, which put them in front of the duty (culture) and desire (feeling) of caring for the family member with Alzheimer's Disease. These are experiences expressed by the dimension of the habitual body, which mobilizes the perceptive body for the exercise of being a caregiver, mother/daughter, daughter-in-law and wife. The coexistence present in the group and the intertwining with other women enable the experience of transcendence (the body of the other) from the moral duty to responsible freedom. Community groups brought us closer to women in their relational territories, which revealed themselves in the field of temporality and intersubjectivity made possible by the group experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To assume that copyright just protects "expressions," (unlike "ideas" protected by patents), may be misleading because a particularly ordered procedure is also protected by copyright law. The procedure as well as the image of Park's Sweet Spot Theory require prior written permission from the original copyright holder for its use. Because this would stymie future generations from building further on this idea, I returned the theory‐based patent to society so that prospective research and development will have no hindrances in the establishment of new knowledge/solutions in nursing science. Creative Controversy: This section of Nursing Forum is set aside to allow for authors to propose "wild ideas" for our consideration. The purpose of a Creative Controversy is to break with traditional thinking and pose a new way of considering an issue. Sometimes these ideas are a small stretch of the imagination; other times they are radical departures from the norm. Both are designed to stimulate conversation about a topic that concerns the profession. We are pleased to bring readers this Creative Controversy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: The main objective of this analysis is to give an understanding of Watson's nursing Caritas as a concept. Design: Watson's nursing Caritas is an abstract concept, and difficult to define and operationalize because of its philosophical nature. Watson's nursing Caritas develops a clear relationship between care, caring factors, and the processes of human life. Methods: We used Walker and Avant's method. PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, EBSCO, Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ProQuest were searched. "Caritas process" and "Watson's caring theory" were searched. In the primary search, 883 articles were found, but eventually, 25 articles were included in the study. Results: We define Watson's nursing Caritas as the process based on caring consciousness, engaging in reliable human caring relationships for healing support, integrity, and development of humanity that alters the concept of caring into a higher ethical commitment inspired by responsibility for others, and different meanings, including kindness, compassion, joyfulness, and peacefulness and leads to the establishment of caring behavior in clinical Watson's nursing Caritas, thus leading to improving performance. Conclusion: Clinical nursing Caritas enables nurses to develop an effective human being relationship between nurse–client–family, and ultimately achieve a common experience and perception of caring. HIGHLIGHTS: What is the current knowledge? Caritas sets a clear link between care and Caritas and the processes of human life. Caritas consciousness is preserved, extended, and improved by the nurse, thus permitting the person to create his or her meaning for existence.What is new here? We define Watson's nursing Caritas as the process based on caring consciousness, engaging in reliable human caring relationships for healing support, integrity, and development of humanity that alters the concept of caring into a higher ethical commitment inspired by responsibility for others, and different meanings, including kindness, compassion, joyfulness, and peacefulness and leads to the establishment of caring behavior in clinical nursing Caritas, thus leading to improving performance. Clinical nursing Caritas enables nurses to develop an effective human being relationship between nurse–client–family, and ultimately achieve common experience and perception of caring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has long been acceptance within healthcare that one of the roles that nurses fulfil is to do with patient advocacy. This has historically been positioned as part of the philosophical and inherent requirements of the nursing profession at large and is supported through shared conceptualisations of the nursing profession. Such conceptualisations are communicated to nursing professionals by way of first their education, and second their professional codes, guidelines and standards for practice. The focus on advocacy is further embedded within patient-centred care frameworks and concepts of the nurse–patient therapeutic relationship. Nurses have also been considered ideally placed to undertake the work of patient advocacy due to the 24/7 nature and intimacy of the care provided. What this means is that nurses are under the impression that that they must be an advocate for their patients through their nursing practice. However, for a fundamental concept of nursing, advocacy is poorly defined, and practices commonly associated with advocacy are undercut by the professionalisation of nursing and other constraints. In addition, nursing standards and frameworks of care are being actively reframed around ideas of empowerment which do not necessarily fit well with those of advocacy. This article thus suggests that it is time to recognise that the work of advocacy is no longer representative of what nurses (can) do in practice, and to explicitly reorient conceptualisations of nurse practice around empowerment. This article will further analyse what this may look like in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces Mi Jin Doe as the recipient of the 2023 Best Paper Award, highlighting her research on trust, her academic achievements, and her contributions to nursing science.

The article highlights the vital importance of the peer review process in maintaining the quality and integrity of scientific publications. Topics discussed include the steps involved in peer review, the common issues of dishonesty and misconduct in publishing, such as plagiarism and misrepresentation of research methods, and the crucial role of peer reviewers as gatekeepers who help shape the dissemination of reliable scientific knowledge.

The article focuses on the importance of publishing methodology-focused research papers to share novel and rigorous research approaches with other researchers. Topics include the need for detailed reporting of research methods, the value of methodology manuscripts in nursing research, and the importance of ensuring the topic is generalizable and novel before submission.

The article focuses on the mission of the Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) to advance nursing knowledge through research funding and collaboration among scholars. It highlights the importance of innovation in nursing research, emphasizing the need for financial support to foster new generations of researchers and the various options available for donations to the MNRS Foundation.

The article offers a perspective on the intersection between nursing and basic science. It refers to the application of nurse-driven biobehavioral conceptual model like the Nurse Role Integration Model as a foundation for nursing research and practice. It discusses the advantages and significance for nursing research of using biobehavioral approach as demonstrated by precision oncology, where nurses gain understanding about molecular mechanisms and tumor genomics to educate patients.

In this article, the author introduces Reed and Crawford Shearer's second edition of Nursing Knowledge and Theory Innovation: Advancing the Science of Practice, envisioning the expanded meaning of nursing theory and knowledge development from the perspective of the science of nursing practice originating from the philosophy of nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 4 February 2021 a group of nurse scholar‐educators, nurses and other interested folks came together for the second of two virtual events to think together about the role of philosophy in the nursing world. The live streamed open access event provided an opportunity in the COVID‐19 pandemic for over 400 people to listen to five nursing scholars' presentations and to interact virtually through comments in chat and on the @IPONSociety Twitter social media platform. By reading the comments and questions that were generated, and by looking at the social media comments related to the event, it is apparent that philosophy is an important thinking practice for nurses but many audience members critically expressed they felt excluded. Critical issues were raised by participants in chat and on Twitter—pointedly around the need for more representative voices—including the imperative to open nursing philosophy to diverse and disparate worldviews. This dialogue provides a summary of critical points raised during the live question and answer session for the panel entitled Addressing Current Debates in Nursing Theory, Education, Practice as well as examing comments selected from the @IPONSociety Twitter space in response to the panel. One commenter said it was great to see the discussion being lifted up from the influential roots of white supremacy, while other nurses expressed that they wished the panellists themselves were more diverse. In discussion of key takeaway, links are made to historical and ongoing structural oppressions in nursing where thinking practices like nursing philosophy and theory are still dominated by world views emanating from positionalities of able‐bodied cis‐gendered heterosexual western eurocentric whiteness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This manuscript represents one segment of a philosophical conversation held in a virtual webinar in February 2021 to consider some of the current debates in nursing theory, education and practice, and their relationship to philosophy. The webinar was sponsored by the International Philosophy of Nursing Society and the Centre for Nursing Philosophy at University of California, Irvine as an opportunity provide a venue for important philosophical and theoretical thinking to a wide audience of nurse educators and practitioners around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, Nursing Education draws on a commonly taken‐for‐granted folk psychology of a representational view of how the mind works and how human beings learn. Descartes' representational view of the mind strongly influences pedagogies, theories of learning, curricula, and approaches to testing nursing knowledge and more broadly in academia. A representational view of the mind holds that perception occurs in the mind only through representations in the mind through ideas, concepts, templates and schema. Situated, embodied, and socially embedded cognition is presented as a counter view to a representational view of the mind [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Panel contribution by Martin Lipscomb to online event "Addressing current debates in nursing theory, education, and practice". Event hosted by the University of California Irvine, in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To determine the relationship between the individualized care perceptions and spiritual care perceptions of nurses. Design and Methods: This descriptive and correlational study was conducted with 263 nurses. Data were collected using a Structured Questionnaire Form, the Individualized Care Scale‐A‐Nurse Version and the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale. Findings: There was a positive and significant relationship between the individualized care perceptions and spiritual care perceptions of the nurses. Practice Implications: The results of this study revealed the reflections of the philosophy of nursing on the field of practice, with findings on the individualized care perceptions and spiritual care perceptions of nurses and the relationship between these variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The year 2022 is Nursing Science Quarterly's 35th year in publication, and we are dialoging with nurse theorists. We hope to uncover influences and origins of their theoretical thinking and hear about their current projects related to nursing science. In this scholarly dialogue column, we dialogue with Dr. Jessica Hemberg, a former nursing student of nurse theorist Dr. Katie Eriksson who was internationally known for her theory of caritative caring. In 1986, Professor Eriksson was invited to create a caring science academic program at Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, Finland, which drew graduate students from all Nordic countries. Eriksson's work highlighted the uniqueness and dignity of the human being and the importance of protecting the vulnerable suffering human being. Dr. Eriksson passed away in 2019, and we are grateful to spend some time with one of her PhD students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author in this article suggests that applying a simple linear concept of time to the phenomenon of aging and development in the United States and around the world is both outdated and problematic, and he explores an alternative view. The author suggests that nursing and other sciences should stop considering age as a non-modifiable risk factor. Various nursing and other theories that support a nonlinear view of time and aging are included, as well as reports from the growing field of geoscience that holds that we can and should target aging and that it can be slowed and, in some cases, reversed. Some implications for nursing and the world are included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While community-based participatory research (CBPR) and other related participatory action research approaches are increasingly being used in nursing research, few of these studies are conceptualized within an extant nursing framework. Instead, CBPR is typically only grounded in socio-ecological and social justice frameworks. However, knowledge is developed in a discipline through research that is conceptualized within the discipline's conceptual systems, frameworks, or theories. This article begins with an explication of the processes and theoretical foundations of CBPR and concludes by offering Falk-Rafael's Critical Caring Theory (CCT) as an ideal theory for reframing CBPR within a nursing science perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To determine the factors associated with reduced research activities during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 by comparing nursing researchers working in academic and clinical settings. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of data collected by the Japan Academy of Nursing Sciences, which conducted a cross‐sectional online survey when the pandemic began. We included respondents who worked in either academic or clinical settings and responded that the pandemic negatively affected their research activities. First, we computed a propensity score (PS) using a logistic regression model. Then we performed a one‐to‐one ratio matching between the groups based on the PS to control imbalances between the groups. We identified the factors negatively affecting research activities and who to consult about research concerns by comparing the groups using Chi‐square or Fisher's exact tests. Results: There were 1,532 participants, with a response rate of 16.1%. After PS matching, 214 participants (107 for each group) were included. We identified three significant factors associated with reduced research activities: (i) time required for learning new information and communication technology (ICT) skills; (ii) time required for supporting colleagues with ICT issues; and (iii) time required for preparing and evaluating teaching materials. Approximately 20% of our participants in both settings had nobody to consult regarding research concerns. Conclusion: We found that the time spent on ICT‐related issues negatively affected the research activities of nursing researchers when the pandemic began in Japan. In such an emergency, nursing researchers needed an opportunity to share their difficulties as a part of a support service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Hoitotiede is the property of Hoitotieteiden Tutkimusseura HTTS r.y. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Hoitotiede is the property of Hoitotieteiden Tutkimusseura HTTS r.y. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The academic teaching clinic at our chiropractic college in California remained open beginning in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place order requiring individuals to stay at home except for essential activities. We report the experiences described by health center personnel who were present during the shelter-in-place early stages. Narrative approach and descriptive thematic analysis of transcripts of 15 interviews with faculty, staff, and student interns. Report of key events and processes for developing ongoing COVID-related policies and procedures to conform with state and county public health mandates. Themes included (1) Organizational processes and procedures; (2) Perceptions of safety; (3) Successful adaptations and responses; (4) Challenges; (5) Mental health and well-being; (6) Unanticipated benefits and opportunities; and (7) Reflections on chiropractic philosophy. Participants' initial fears diminished as they gained confidence in the safety conferred by the new procedures and a returning sense of normalcy. They discussed the importance of social connection, chiropractic wellness philosophy, and their personal beliefs within the context of the pandemic and public health mandates. Despite initial reductions in numbers of patients and procedures that could be performed, patients received continuing chiropractic care and interns were able to complete their academic requirements while experiencing unique learning opportunities. Despite substantial challenges, the rapid response in the early stages of the pandemic enabled the college to fulfill the multiple missions of providing patient care, community support, and uninterrupted clinical education to student interns while conforming to public health mandates and guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Palliative care (PC) education should be an important part of both the graduate and undergraduate nursing curriculum. Nursing's philosophy of holistic care, which aims to improve the quality of life of patients and families, aligns with the primary objective of PC, positioning nurses to take the lead in expanding and improving PC delivery to all patients with a life-threatening diagnosis. The best way to facilitate this level of care is when staff nurses and advanced practice nurses work collaboratively. Aim: To establish a new standard for nursing education that emphasises intradisciplinary care. Methods: To fill the gap in PC education for nursing students, a dedicated elective PC class was developed for undergraduate and graduate students at a large midwestern University in the United States. Findings: Through an interactive approach to learning, both groups were able to experience and more fully understand how they would work collaboratively with each other to provide high-quality PC. Conclusions: Intradisciplinary PC education is an opportunity for students to learn the precepts of PC in an environment that will mirror their post-graduation practice environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this editorial is to discuss the opportunities associated with situating nursing science and public health within a shared context as an avenue for nursing to capitalize on its strong foundation for promoting health equity and mitigating the many social and structural determinants of poor health. We highlight one example of how this might be done, by housing departments of nursing in larger colleges of public health. Conducting nursing science within a college of public health presents both opportunities and challenges which are discussed here. Considering the benefits and challenges of collectively situating nursing and public health with a shared context creates numerous natural starting points for productive conversation, collaboration, and discovery that can benefit both public health and nursing’s ability to interrogate past harms and transform our approach to move towards a more healthy and equitable future for all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this phenomenological article is to analyse the relationship of care in the context of contemporaneity and the pandemic. Methodology: The experience of care in the framework of Covid19 has allowed us to understand some physical and spatial barriers imposed in the syndemic framework. In order to reflect on this phenomenon, some philosophical postulates of Han and Lévinas, related to the splitting of intersubjective relationships in the 20th century, as well as the ontological construction of care proposed by Siles, have been taken as theoretical references. Conclusion: talking, being listened to and accompanied is therapeutic; while repression of the symbolic act increases painful tension. In the midst of this reality, it is worth remembering that, without care, man ceases to be human. Without care, from birth to death, the human being disarticulates, weakens, loses meaning and dies. If, in the course of life, everything he undertakes is not undertaken with care, he will end up harming himself and destroying everything around him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Few quantitative studies have documented the types of research topics most commonly employed by nursing PhD students and whether they differ by program delivery (in-person vs. online/hybrid programs). Objectives: We examined a large set of publicly available PhD dissertation abstracts to (a) describe the relative prevalence of different research topics and methods and (b) test whether the primary topics and methods used differed between online or hybrid and in-person PhD programs. A secondary goal was to introduce the reader to modern text-mining approaches to generate insights from a document corpus. Methods: Our database consisted of 2,027 dissertation abstracts published between 2015 and 2019. We used a structural topic modeling text-mining approach to explore PhD students' research topics and methods in United States-based doctoral nursing programs. Results: We identified 24 different research topics representing a wide range of research activities. Most of the research topics identified did not differ in prevalence between online/hybrid and in-person programs. However, online/hybrid programs were more likely to engage students in research focused on nursing education, professional development, work environment, simulation, and qualitative analysis. Pediatrics, sleep science, older adults and aging, and chronic disease management were more prevalent topics in in-person-only programs. Discussion: The range of topics identified highlights the breadth of research nursing PhD students' conduct. Both in-person and online/hybrid programs offer a range of research opportunities, although we did observe some differences in topic prevalence. These differences could be due to the nature of some types of research (e.g., research that requires an in-person presence) or differences in research intensity between programs (e.g., amount of grant funding or proximity to a medical center). Future research should explore why research topic prevalence may vary by program delivery. We hope that this text-mining application serves as an illustrative example for researchers considering how to draw inferences from large sets of text documents. We are particularly interested in seeing future work that might combine traditional qualitative approaches and large-scale text mining to leverage the advantages of each. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When I was a child, my grandmother took me to the pond and told me to throw a stone and watch what happens. Just like that stone, she said my role was to create a ripple effect when helping the people and planet. Many years later, I was asked to help shape a new undergraduate nursing program based on anti-racism and decolonisation. We are now making ripples together in nursing education for the good of all my relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author explores humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing and provides exemplars of paradoxes that are used by scholars in this mode of inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An editorial discusses the responsibility for knowledge building in nursing, emphasizing the importance of focusing PhD programs on nursing science rather than new technologies. It suggests prioritizing courses in nursing theory, research methods, and philosophy of science to prepare scholars to lead knowledge building efforts in nursing.

This essay is an extension of my previous essay about my recent thoughts about the evolution of the metaparadigm of nursing. In this essay, I introduce the concept of culture as an additional metaparadigm concept and provide definitions for all of the metaparadigm concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the prominence of person‐centred care (PCC) in nursing, there is no general agreement on the assumptions and the meaning of PCC. We sympathize with the work of others who rethink PCC towards relational, embedded, and temporal selfhood rather than individual personhood. Our perspective addresses criticism of humanist assumptions in PCC using critical posthumanism as a diffraction from dominant values We highlight the problematic realities that might be produced in healthcare, leading to some people being more likely to be disenfranchised from healthcare than others. We point to the colonial, homo‐ and transphobic, racist, ableist, and ageist consequences of humanist traditions that have influenced the development of PCC. We describe the deep rooted conditions that structurally uphold inequality and undermine nursing practice that PCC reproduces. We advocate for the self‐determination of patients and emphasize that we support the fundamental mechanisms of PCC enabling patients' choice; however, without critical introspection, these are limited to a portion of humans. Last, we present limitations of our perspective based on our white*‐cisheteropatriarchy** positionality. We point to the fact that any reimagining of models such as PCC should be carefully done by listening, following, and ceding power to people with diversity dimensions*** and the lived experience or expertise that exists from diverse perspectives. We point towards Black, queer feminism, and critical disabilities studies to contextualize our point of critique with humanism and PCC to amplify equity for all people and communities. Theory and philosophy are useful to understand restrictive factors in healthcare delivery and to inform systematic strategies to improve the quality of care so as not to perpetuate the oppression of groups of people with diversity dimensions. *We purposely capitalize Black and use lower case for white to decentre whiteness and as an intentional act of antiracism (see White Homework a podcast series by Tori W. Douglas). **Cisheteropatriarchy describes people with intersecting identities of dominant social groups; cisgender is the gender identity that aligns with the gender you were assigned at birth, hetero means heterosexual, and patriarchy refers to structural systems of power based on maleness where women are often excluded and hold less power. ***With diversity dimensions, we refer to subjective lived experience and material realities of people that exist outside the 'dominant minorities' of white‐cisheteropatriarchy, meaning groups of people in society who historically and currently hold more power and through this, structurally dominate the norms and possibilities of living for other people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shared decision making has become the standard of care, yet there remains no consensus about how it should be conducted. Most accounts are concerned with threats to patient autonomy, and they address the dangers of a power imbalance by foregrounding the patient as a person whose complex preferences it is the practitioner's task to support. Other corrective models fear that this level of mutuality risks abdicating the practitioner's responsibilities as an expert, and they address that concern by recovering a nuanced but genuinely directive clinical role. Cribb and Entwistle helpfully categorize models of shared decision making as 'narrower' and 'broader' and praise the latter's 'open‐ended and fully dialogical ways of relating'. However, they stop short of providing a philosophical account of how that dialogue works. In this paper, a nurse–midwife and a philosopher collaborate to argue that the Socratic model of dialogue offers a solution to the practitioner–patient dilemma. In the Theaetetus, Socrates compares dialogical reasoning to 'midwifery with all its standard features'. By means of a three‐way analogy, elements of midwifery practice are used to illuminate features of Socrates' claim that his dialogue is like midwifery; those features are then translated into an approach to shared decision making as the 'midwifery of good thinking' which both midwives and physicians would do well to adopt. A key concept that emerges is the need for practitioners to make a risk‐confidence assessment of the particular content of any decision to appropriately modulate their role in the practice of shared decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, I explore the challenges that ideological hegemonies of personhood imbibed by nurses and other healthcare workers could pose for the nursing profession, particularly in terms of inhibiting the acknowledgment of difference. Dominant or hegemonic conceptions of personhood in particular spaces often consist of self‐contained ideas and essentialist ontologies and normativity of what it means to be a person, lack of which results in the denial of personhood and the othering as non‐person or sub‐person. The other as the residue of such self‐contained notions of personhood is most often denied the quality of care that the one who fits within such conceptions enjoy. For nurses and other healthcare workers to overcome such exclusionary tendencies in healthcare, they must overcome hegemonies and ideological dominance and be more open to alternative viewpoints and theories of personhood. I develop these lines of thought by focusing on the rich ideological traditions of Continental and African philosophies showing how exclusion takes place within these traditions based on conceptions of personhood and how such exclusion on the basis of difference impacts negatively on healthcare. I conclude by highlighting the need to go beyond hegemonic philosophies of personhood by decolonizing and demasculinizing healthcare, thereby allowing difference to flourish in an ecology of medical knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]