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Quality care as ethical care: a poststructural analysis of palliative and supportive district nursing care.

Authors :
Nagington, Maurice
Walshe, Catherine
Luker, Karen A
Source :
Nursing Inquiry. Mar2016, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p12-23. 12p.
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

Quality of care is a prominent discourse in modern health‐care and has previously been conceptualised in terms of ethics. In addition, the role of knowledge has been suggested as being particularly influential with regard to the nurse–patient–carer relationship. However, to date, no analyses have examined how knowledge (as an ethical concept) impinges on quality of care. Qualitative semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 26 patients with palliative and supportive care needs receiving district nursing care and thirteen of their lay carers. Poststructural discourse analysis techniques were utilised to take an ethical perspective on the current way in which quality of care is assessed and produced in health‐care. It is argued that if quality of care is to be achieved, patients and carers need to be able to redistribute and redevelop the knowledge of their services in a collaborative way that goes beyond the current ways of working. Theoretical works and extant research are then used to produce tentative suggestions about how this may be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
13207881
Volume :
23
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Nursing Inquiry
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
112838634
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12109