ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.1080/10376178.1994.11001474

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.1080/10376178.1994.11001475

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

AbstractFifty registered nurses were interviewed to determine how nurses view routine post anaesthetic observations (RPAOs). A structured interview established whether nurses routinely carry out post anaesthetic observations and if they believe that routine observations are part of ward procedure or hospital policy. Nurses’beliefs about the necessity for performing these observations and the rationales they use to justify them were also explored. The results show that all the nurses sampled interpreted RPAOs to mean half hourly vital sign measurements for four hours, and believed that the regimen was prescribed by ward or hospital policy. Many believed that this frequency was necessary to detect complications of surgery or anaesthesia. A small number of nurses felt obliged to comply with perceived hospital policy despite an assessment that it was unnecessary. Procedure-driven assessment and tradition rather than individualized patient assessment appear to be directing post operative nursing actions.

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.5172/conu.3.2.52

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

AbstractThe concept of consciousness raising has become somewhat tired and jaded in nursing literature. Indeed the notion of consciousness raising and its associated catchcry of‘making the personal political’, is almost so hackneyed as to be somewhat unfashionable and clichéd in the 1990s. This is due, at least in part, to the fact that consciousness raising emanated from the women’s movement of the 1960s and was originally directed at linking the personal and the political, but in nursing emphasis has often been given to the personal with little recourse to the political. It is thus timely and important to draw on insights afforded by critical perspectives and synthesize them anew with the tenets of consciousness raising in order to make explicit the power relations and structural oppression implicit in the nursing context. If consciousness raising, and the making of the personal political, are combined with the theoretical insights provided by critical theorists such as Faoucault (1977, 1980), it is possible to re-orient and re-energise the somewhat trite and worn catchcry of the personal as political.

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.5172/conu.3.2.58

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.1080/10376178.1994.11001478

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

AbstractUnder-treatment of all types of pain has been identified in many countries throughout the world. For example, the World Health Organization states that unrelieved cancer pain is an international problem. Lack of education of health care professionals, including nurses, is frequently cited as a major reason for under-treatment of pain. This survey of 517 Australian nurses suggests that they have some of the same educational needs as nurses in North America, such as how to assess pain intensity and how to select a dose of an opioid analgesic that is appropriate for the individual patient.

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.5172/conu.3.2.68

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

AbstractDespite numerous studies and re-education strategies spanning two decades, inadequate relief of pain remains a significant problem for both clients and nurses. This paper explores the literature on the extent of the problem and suggests that societal attitudes about narcotic drugs are a major contributing factor to this problem. Encouraging reflective practice is one of the strategies suggested to address the situation.

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.5172/conu.3.2.75

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.1080/10376178.1994.11001481

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

AbstractAction research has become increasingly acceptable as a legitimate methodology with which to research nursing; the term‘action research’, however, now covers a range of approaches to strategic intervention and action theory generation. The reasons behind the‘rise’of action research, the differing approaches the term covers and the common characteristics of these approaches are described and their implications for action researchers discussed. The nature of the action theories that action research aims to surface/generate and validate is also discussed.

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.5172/conu.3.2.84

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1037-6178    

DOI:10.1080/10376178.1994.11001483

出版商:Routledge    

年代:1994

数据来源: Taylor