Biomedical subjects
Callista Roy
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The nurse theorists: 21st-century updates--Callista Roy. Interview by Jacqueline Fawcett.
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Knowledge Impact Conference 2001: action plans linking nursing knowledge to practice outcomes.
The work of the Knowledge Conferences in Northeastern USA over 2 decades has been significant. A major contribution is a Consensus Statement that provides the basis for dialogue about nursing knowledge worldwide. In addition to proceedings that have been circulated, the best of the most recent series of conferences-from 1996 through the recent conference in October 2001-will be included in the forthcoming book on knowledge and practice.
Lifestyle change in type 2 diabetes a process model.
BACKGROUND: Integration is an emerging concept in the study of self-management and chronic illness, yet this process and how it occurs is not well understood. OBJECTIVES: This investigation, part of a triangulated study, focused on the experience of integrating type 2 diabetes treatment recommendations into an existing lifestyle while participating in a nurse-coaching intervention. METHOD: An interpretive method elicited data from nurse-coaching sessions (4), field notes, and an interview in 9 women with type 2 diabetes. The process of data reduction and analysis (Miles & Huberman, 1994) was used to interpret data. RESULTS: The core process of integrating lifestyle change in type 2 diabetes was multifaceted and complex. Challenges to the process of integrating lifestyle change included reconciling emotions, composing a structure, striving for satisfaction, exploring self and conflicts, discovering balance, and developing a new cadence to life. These challenges required acknowledgment in order for participants to progress toward integration. DISCUSSION: Balance was an integral component to the experience of integration, between structure and flexibility, fear and hope, conflict and acceptance, diabetes and life. Conceptualizations identified with this investigation extend understanding of theories of integration and lifestyle change and invite the development and testing of nursing interventions.