• Nursing as concrete philosophy, Part I : Risjord on nursing knowledge.
  Theodoridis, Kyriakos   Journal article in Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals;2 : Wiley (2018)	Journal article

  

  

  English abstract:	This essay addresses the problem of the essentiality of nursing knowledge and what kind of theory, if any, is essential to nursing practice. The overarching aim of the essay was to argue for the thesis that nursing may be described as a kind of philosophical activity, and, consequently, that philosophy is the kind of "theory" that is essential to nursing practice and to the nursing discipline at large. The essay consists of two papers. The present paper, Part I, is a critical examination of Mark Risjord's discussion of the problem of the theory-practice gap in his Nursing Knowledge: Practice, Science, Philosophy, from 2010. According to Risjord, the cause of the theory-practice gap originates in an erroneous conception of science (logical positivism) which had a decisive influence upon the way nursing scholars appropriated theoretical frameworks for the nursing discipline. This philosophical influence is considered in effect to have generated the theory-practice gap. In order to bridge the gap, Risjord suggests, the nursing discipline needs to adopt a standpoint epistemology conjoined with a postpositivist conception of scientific theory. In this way, a legitimate brand of nursing science may be developed and the theory-practice gap overcome. I will argue that neither Risjord's diagnosis of the problem, nor his recommended cure, may succeed in rescuing the nursing discipline from the theory-practice gap. Rather, the real cause of the theory-practice gap, I will claim, derives from an erroneous conception of nursing (not of science), namely the conception of nursing as a kind of science (roughly speaking). On my view, to overcome the gap, the nursing discipline needs to make salient the inherently philosophical character of nursing. In the second paper (Part II), I will continue the discussion of nursing knowledge and delineate the thesis of nursing as a kind of concrete philosophy.
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• Nursing as concrete philosophy, Part II : Engaging with reality
  Theodoridis, Kyriakos   Journal article in Nursing Philosophy;2 : Wiley (2018)	Journal article

  

  

  English abstract:

  This is the second paper of an essay in two parts. The first paper (Part I) is a critical discussion of Mark Risjord's conception of nursing knowledge where I argued against the conception of nursing knowledge as a kind of nursing science. The aim of the present paper (Part II) is to explicate and substantiate the thesis of nursing as a kind of concrete philosophy. My strategy is to elaborate upon certain themes from Wittgenstein's Tractatus in order to canvass a general scheme of philosophy based on a distinction between reality and the world. This distinction will be employed in the appropriation of certain significant features of nursing and nursing knowledge. By elaborating on the contrast between the abstract and the concrete, I will suggest that nursing may be seen as a kind of concrete philosophy, being primarily concerned with reality (and secondarily with the world). This thesis, I will argue, implies that philosophy is the kind of theory that is essential to nursing (which is not so much a theory than a certain kind of activity).

• Psychometric evaluation of the Post Hospitalization Behavior Question...
  Nilsson, Ulrica; Ericsson, Elisabeth; Eriksson, Mats; Idvall, Ewa; Bramhagen, Ann-Cathrine   Journal article in Journal of Perioperative Practice; : Sage (2018)	Journal article

  

  

  English abstract:	The study comprised a prospective, comparative, cross-sectional survey in 143 children undergoing tonsil surgery. Parents answered the Post Hospitalization Behavior Questionnaire for Ambulatory Surgery (PHBQ-AS), and children answered the questionnaire Postoperative Recovery in Children (PRiC). The PHBQ-AS had positive correlation with the PRiC and with general health. On day 10 after surgery, up to 1/3 of the children still reported physical symptoms (PRiC). No gender or age differences concerning the items of behavior (PHBQ-AS) were found. The quality of postoperative recovery (PRiC) in girls were lower, with higher levels of nausea, dizziness, coldness, and headache compared to boys. Children <6 years of age reported higher levels of dizziness, and lower sleep quality and lower general health.
  Swedish abstract:	Studien bestod av en prospektiv jämförande tvärsnittstudie med 143 barn som genomgått tonsilloperation. Föräldrarna besvarade frågeformuläret ”the Post-Hospitalization Behavior Questionnarie for Ambulatory Syrgery (PHBQ-AS) och barnen besvarade frågeformuläret ”Postoperative Recovery in Children (PRiC). PHBQ-AS hade en positiv correlation med PRiC och med generell hälsa. På dag 10 postoperativt, rapporterade upp till 1/3 av barnen att de fortfarande hade fysiska symptom (PRiC). Inga köns-eller åldersskillnader hittades avseende frågor om beteende (PHBQ-AS). Den postoperative återhämtningen (PRiC) var lägre bland flickor som hade högre nivåer av illamående, yrsel, frusenhet och huvudvärk jämfört med pojkarna. Barn under 6 år rapporterade högre grad av yrsel och sämre sömn samt lägre generell hälsa

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• Hoping to reach a safe haven :Swedish families' lived experience when...
  Holst-Hansson, Annette; Idvall, Ewa; Bolinsjo, Ingrid; Wennick, Anne   Journal article in European Journal of Oncology Nursing; : Elsevier (2017)	Journal article

  

  

  English abstract:

  Purpose: When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, it affects all family members. Therefore, the aim of this study was to elucidate family members lived experience when a family member is diagnosed with breast cancer. Method: The study had a hermeneutic phenomenological design including individual conversational interviews conducted face-to-face with six women with breast cancer and their family members at two different points of time, in order to elucidate families' lived experience, both as individuals and as a unit, from each family member's perspective. Results: Living as a family in the presence of breast cancer is a challenging endeavour to regain an ordinary, safe life, hoping to reach a safe haven. The families felt that life as they knew it had disappeared and they were fumbling in the dark, trying to find support and guidance on their path to ordinary life. The family members were pursuing balance by attempting to keep the family together and maintaining a positive attitude while battling against fear and treatment-related side effects. Finally, the families were struggling with guilt and inadequacy, due to their difficulties in communicating the emotional distress that the illness brought upon them, at the same time as they felt abandoned by the healthcare professionals. Conclusions: Families experience an unmet need of information and support, which implies that healthcare professionals may want to acknowledge and include the family already at the time of diagnosis in order to help them endure and cope with the distressing experience and thus increase their wellbeing.

• Using national hip fracture registries and audit databases to develop...
  Johansen, Antony; Golding, David; Brent, Louise; Close, Jacqueline; Gjertsen, Jan-Erik; Holt, Graeme; Hommel, Ami; Pedersen, Alma B.; Rock, Niels Dieter; Thorngren, Karl-Goran   Journal article in Injury;10 : Elsevier (2017)	Journal article

  

  

  English abstract:

  Hip fracture is the commonest reason for older people to need emergency anaesthesia and surgery, and leads to prolonged dependence for many of those who survive. People with this injury are usually identified very early in their hospital care, so hip fracture is an ideal marker condition with which to audit the care offered to older people by health services around the world. We have reviewed the reports of eight national audit programmes, to examine the approach used in each, and highlight differences in case mix, management and outcomes in different countries. The national audits provide a consistent picture of typical patients - an average age of 80 years, with less than a third being men, and a third of all patients having cognitive impairment - but there was surprising variation in the type of fracture, of operation and of anaesthesia and hospital length of stay in different countries. These national audits provide a unique opportunity to compare how health care systems of different countries are responding to the same clinical challenge. This review will encourage the development and reporting of a standardised dataset to support international collaboration in healthcare audit. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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