In search of good care: the methodology of phenomenological, theory-oriented ‘N=N case studies’ in empirically grounded ethics of care

Timmerman, Guus; Baart, Andries; Vosman, F.J.H.

doi:10.1007/s11019-019-09892-9

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“…(4) Within the explicitly broad view on care good medicine, health care, help, and support are always context- and situation-specific, and can only be validated locally—that is, via the experience of the care receiver (). (5) Care ethics as we practice it, studies practices of medicine, health care and social welfare, help, and support, both empirically and theoretically and not just philosophically or via a general political theory only’ (Timmerman et al 2019 : 574; further references there).…”

Section: Assessing Quality Of Carementioning

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Cultivating quality awareness in corona times

Timmerman¹,

Baart

Bakker³

2021

Med Health Care and Philos

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The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy for those who have been hard hit worldwide. At the same time, it is also a test of concepts and practices of what good care is and requires, and how quality of care can be accounted for. In this paper, we present our Care-Ethical Model of Quality Enquiry (CEMQUE) and apply it to the case of residential care for older people in the Netherlands during the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead of thinking about care in healthcare and social welfare as a set of separate care acts, we think about care as a complex practice of relational caring, crossed by other practices. Instead of thinking about professional caregivers as functionaries obeying external rules, we think about them as practically wise professionals. Instead of thinking about developing external quality criteria and systems, we think about cultivating (self-)reflective quality awareness. Instead of abstracting from societal forces that make care possible but also limit it, we acknowledge them and find ways to deal with them. Based on these critical insights, the CEMQUE model can be helpful to describe, interrogate, evaluate, and improve existing care practices. It has four entries: (i) the care receiver considered from their humanness, (ii) the caregiver considered from their solicitude, (iii) the care facility considered from its habitability and (iv) the societal, institutional and scholarly context considered from the perspective of the good life, justice and decency. The crux is enabling all these different entries with all their different aspects to be taken into account. In Corona times this turns out to be more crucial than ever.

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Section: Assessing Quality Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Cultivating quality awareness in corona times

Timmerman¹,

Baart

Bakker³

2021

Med Health Care and Philos

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“…There has been call for empirical research into care ethics to guide future health professionals practice. 18,28,29,53,54 However, it has been acknowledged by ethicist researchers that there are difficulties in empirical research informing normative ethics. 55 Ethical research is often interested in conceptual clarification and normative justification, whereas empirical research is focused on definitives via description and analysis.…”

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“…Care ethics has been broadly described as including four broad concepts: relationship, caring practices, context and attention to power. 18,25,26,28,29,53 These concepts were decided upon by the research team using an iterative process and became the final four a priori codes. Each article was reviewed and screened for these a priori codes.…”

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Care ethics framework for midwifery practice: A scoping review

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Background: As a normative theory, care ethics has become widely theorized and accepted. However, there remains a lack of clarity in relation to its use in practice, and a care ethics framework for practice. Maternity care is fraught with ethical issues and care ethics may provide an avenue to enhance ethical sensitivity. Aim: The purpose of this scoping review is to determine how care ethics is used amongst health professions, and to collate the information in data charts to create a care ethics framework and definition for midwifery practice. Method: The scoping review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) recommendations. The search was applied to the databases CINAHL, MEDLINE, PschInfo and Pubmed which were searched in September 2019 and again in July 2021. The inclusion criteria were guided by the mnemonic for search terms: Participants, Concept, and Context (PCC) and included variations of health care professionals, care ethics and utilization. The search was limited to qualitative studies published in English between 2010 and 2021. A data extraction tool was used to extract and synthesize data into categories. The articles were screened for eligibility by title, abstract and full text review, by two independent reviewers. Ethical Considerations: The scoping review was guided by ethical conduct respecting authorship and referencing sources. Results: Twelve of the initially identified 129 studies were included in the scoping review. Data synthesis yielded four categories of care ethics use by health professionals: relationship, context, attention to power and caring practices. In combination, the evidence forms a framework for care ethics use in midwifery practice. Conclusion: Care ethics use by health professionals enhances ethical sensitivity. A framework and definition for care ethics for midwifery practice is proposed. This review will be of interest to midwives and other health practitioners seeking to enhance ethical sensitivity.

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“…A report of our findings was sent to them for comments and one of them responded in detail. Our general methodology, using just enough but extensively described cases, is elucidated and accounted for in Timmerman et al (2019) .…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Training Actors’ Knowledge of the Lived Experience of People With Advanced Dementia

Timmerman¹,

Leest²

2022

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Do professional actors playing someone with dementia in training situations have knowledge of what it is like to be someone with dementia? And what knowledge? In preparation of a phenomenological study into the experience of people with advanced dementia in residential care, we interviewed four of these actors. Reflecting on their own experience with people with dementia and other experiences in their life enabled them to explore and find a reservoir of movements, gestures, postures, gazes, emotions, and responses from which they draw during their play. This reservoir is confirmed and refined in their playing persons with dementia. Their preparation, experience while playing, and reflection, validated by the response from caregivers, family members and people with dementia, make their knowledge as near as we can get to the experience of people with advanced dementia. Taking in this knowledge contributes to a larger repertoire to draw from in practising moral imagination.

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In search of good care: the methodology of phenomenological, theory-oriented ‘N=N case studies’ in empirically grounded ethics of care

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Cultivating quality awareness in corona times

Cultivating quality awareness in corona times

Care ethics framework for midwifery practice: A scoping review

Training Actors’ Knowledge of the Lived Experience of People With Advanced Dementia

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