Admiring courage: Nurses’ perceptions of caring for patients with cancer

Kendall, Sharon

doi:10.1016/j.ejon.2006.01.005

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“…Husserl used the term essence to refer the quality that is common or universal in the experience 9 . In order to be true to the phenomenological approach, before analysis, the researcher engaged in the epoché process by reflecting on the impetus for the research and numerous nurse–patient interactions in her career 10 . These were documented and set aside.…”

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Witnessing tragedy: Nurses' perceptions of caring for patients with cancer

Kendall

2007

Int J of Nursing Practice

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This paper details one of the findings of a large phenomenological study into the effects of nurse-patient encounters on clinical learning and practice. Every nurse faces the challenge of caring for a patient with cancer at some point in his or her nursing career. The participants, 392 nurses, were asked to discuss a care episode from their practice and the impact this encounter had on clinical learning and practice. The data collection method was by way of a written narrative/clinical exemplar. Meaning units and themes were identified using the Nvivo computer program. The procedural method of Giorgi was followed in all phases of analysis. The participants provided a detached description of the patients' diagnoses but tended to become emotive when discussing the cancer treatment experience. Nurses detailed care episodes with insight and understanding of the consequences of cancer for the patient. Nurses used powerful language to illustrate the enormity of the cancer experience for the patient and family. Although the nurses recognized the emotional impact themselves, they attempted to understate it. Participants spoke of their frustration and their sadness when describing the nurse-patient encounters. The life-threatening potential of cancer for the patient and the perception of potential or actual suffering do impact on nurses, their learning and their clinical practice. This is particularly evident when the cancer experience for the patient is not predictable. Participants clearly felt the influence of patients' cancer experience, personally and professionally. Participants detailed learning from the encounters and reflected with great insight on themselves and their practice. Identifying the learning potential of nurse-patient encounters can contribute to change in clinical practice.

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Witnessing tragedy: Nurses' perceptions of caring for patients with cancer

Kendall

2007

Int J of Nursing Practice

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“…This requires a positive attitude in order to foster bravery and prevent a patient 'giving up.' This positive thinking often invokes admiration from HCPs who characterise it as courageous (Kendall, 2006). The difficulty that lies behind such constructions is the framed vulnerability that is implicit behind such categorisation(s).…”

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Reflections on access: too vulnerable to research?

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Haigh

2013

Journal of Research in Nursing

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This paper seeks to highlight the challenges facing researchers when recruiting vulnerable patients to a research study. We explore the difficulties experienced in gatekeeping for a project involving people with dementia, intellectual disabilities and mental health problems who are also having treatment for cancer. It is argued that the challenges in identifying and recruiting vulnerable participants extend beyond ethics committees and governance to the perceptions and judgements of health care professionals in 'allowing' access to particular patient groups. These positions and judgements appear to be embedded in certain construction(s) of cancer and discourses surrounding dementia, intellectual disabilities and mental health.

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“…Les connaissances et les compétences peuvent s'acquérir et se raffiner par les expériences personnelles et professionnelles (Cohen, 1995;Kendall, 2006). Les hôpitaux peuvent s'associer à une organisation pour obtenir de la formation et du mentorat afin de favoriser l'acquisition des connaissances et le développement des soins infirmiers par le biais d'initiatives de mentorat.…”

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