The continuing formation of relational caring professionals

Timmerman, Guus; Baart, Andries

doi:10.1007/s11019-022-10104-0

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“…The data depicting spirituality in the workplace as a dependent variable suggests value in integrating spirituality into existing well-being measures such as flourishing at work (Rothmann, 2013), sustainable employability capabilities (Abma et al, 2016), and ethics of care (Timmerman & Baart, 2022). These measures could enhance their value and impact in the workplace.…”

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Spirituality in the workplace in South Africa: : A systematic literature review

de Wet,

Heyns,

Marais-Opperman

2024

KOERS

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Background: Spirituality is a multi-dimensional concept that involves a person's pursuit of well-being through connections with oneself, others, nature, and the transcendent. Spirituality in the workplace encompasses the integration of spirituality into organisational and work dynamics. Purpose: This systematic literature review sourced and synthesised empirical research evidence to explore the influence and experience of perceived spirituality in the workplace on workers in the South African workplace. Methodology: The systematic literature review plan was registered on the Open Science Framework. Keyword searches were conducted, and studies were screened following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) process and checklist. Specific inclusion and exclusion criteria informed the second screening and review of articles. Thirty-one articles fit the specific criteria for inclusion in the review. Relevant data was extracted using thematic analysis. Findings/results: The respondents in the various studies spanned public and private sectors, encompassing various professions and ethnicities. The articles reviewed indicated that the perception of spirituality in the workplace manifested in a variety of constructs and concepts, positively influencing and impacting individual, group, and organisational levels. The review indicated that nuanced contextual differences may play a role in the experience of spirituality in the South African workplace. Practical implications: The literature review suggests potential constructs for understanding workplace spirituality in South Africa, with future research potential for constructing a framework fostering a pluralistic model of spirituality at work. Originality/value: Understanding spirituality in the South African work context could assist in bringing about more productive and healthy organisations. Provided data also forms a basis for developing a potential framework for implementing spirituality in South African organisations.

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Spirituality in the workplace in South Africa: : A systematic literature review

de Wet,

Heyns,

Marais-Opperman

2024

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“…The ethics of care views health and social care, in particular, as an ongoing and ever-changing relational process. This process involves mutual attunement and attentiveness between care providers and care receivers—who are often vulnerable and dependent ( 29 – 31 ). Using care ethics as an analytical lens allowed us to forefront participants’ values, unpack various inherent tensions, and understand how they negotiate such tensions in daily care.…”

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In constant search of the good: a qualitative study into insiders’ perspectives on living well with dementia

Yaron,

Bakker,

de Bruin

2024

Front. Psychiatry

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IntroductionThe new concept of ‘living well with dementia’ is currently gaining traction in practice, policy, and research. However, people with dementia and their carers’ own understanding of this concept has not received much scholarly attention. This is because empirical studies into living well with dementia are predominantly quantitative; there are only a few qualitative studies on this topic. This study therefore sets out to investigate what living well means for ‘insiders’ in an everyday context.MethodsTo explore insiders’ own perspectives on living well with dementia, we conducted interviews and focus group discussions with 21 dementia stakeholders. The study included ten individuals with mild-to-moderate dementia living at home, five family carers who are or have been involved in the care for a person with dementia, and six health and social care professionals.ResultsLiving well with dementia, for our study participants, revolves around shaping their daily lives according to their values. In this sense, living well with dementia is no different than without. As it involves the values of the person with dementia and those of their social network, living well is both an individual and a collective concern. Having dementia undermines people with dementia's ability to substantiate their values, but it is still possible to live well. As they attempt to shape living well with dementia, respondents encounter tensions within the social network and within the person with dementia. To handle these tensions, they work for mutual attunement by using sensitivity and switching between leading and following in social interactions.DiscussionLiving well with dementia in a daily context is a dynamic process in which people with dementia, family carers, and professionals constantly seek the good together. This insight contributes to a better understanding of stakeholders’ ongoing, invisible efforts to mutually attune. It may also help bypass dichotomizing approaches to dementia. Finally, it opens up new venues for research into reciprocity in the care collective. The article closes with recommendations to improve dementia care and support in light of these findings.

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“…By literally standing in the shoes of the care receiver, a care professional gains experience that allows to practice or exercise Tronto’s moral quality of responsiveness. This refers to knowledge of the fragility of human existence and to the awareness of how it can be to be sick, lonely, care dependent, physically limited, suffering of dementia… 11 This knowledge also stems from changing of perspective, namely, not looking from me (as health care professional) to you (as patient or care receiver) but from you to me.…”

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Bodily contrast experiences in cultivating character for care

Vanlaere

Burggraeve

2023

Nurs Ethics

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Since 2008, in Flanders, we organize immersion sessions in a simulated context with the aim of stimulating student nurses and health professionals to learn virtuous caring. In this contribution, we first outline the purpose of this experiential learning: the cultivation of moral character. We come to the core of what we mean by moral character for care. We refer to Joan Tronto and Stan van Hooft to claim that caring is central to all aspects of nursing practice and is the basis of its moral quality. We also stipulate that caring involves the integration of action with emotions, motivations, and knowledge. Second, we briefly explain how the immersion sessions in the care ethics lab take place and, in particular, reflect on what it yields in terms of experiences for the participants who take on the role of simulant patients in this experiential learning process. We focus on the significant role contrast experiences play in these experiences. Especially the negative contrast experiences do not wear off easily; care professionals remember even long after the immersion session and continue to carry them with them as a “corporeal built-in alarm.” Third, we discuss the role of contrast experiences in cultivating moral character for care. In particular, we explore the role of the body in the kind of knowing it cultivates and, by extension, its role in cultivating virtuous caring. By referring to specific philosophical ideas of Gabriël Marcel, Hans Jonas and Emmanuel Levinas, we try to understand how contrast experiences bring about an integration of virtuous action into knowledge, motivation, and emotion. We conclude that we need more space for contrast experiences in cultivating moral character. More attention should be paid to the role of the body in this learning process.

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The continuing formation of relational caring professionals

Cited by 4 publications

References 53 publications

Spirituality in the workplace in South Africa: : A systematic literature review

Spirituality in the workplace in South Africa: : A systematic literature review

In constant search of the good: a qualitative study into insiders’ perspectives on living well with dementia

Bodily contrast experiences in cultivating character for care

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