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Gweneth Hartrick Doane

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PubMed2006

The "hard spots" of family nursing: connecting across difference and diversity.

The focus of this discussion is how nurses might more effectively work within the "hard spots" of family nursing to connect across difference. Taking a pragmatic stance toward knowledge, the practical consequences of ideas and theories informing definitions of family and family nursing practice are examined. The authors propose that the provision of competent, ethical, and culturally safe nursing care could be greatly enhanced by a relational view. In particular it is suggested that understanding family as a relational experience, understanding nursing and culture as relational processes and conceptualizing difference as a basis for connection can provide a foundation for more effectively working across differences. Using this relational view the authors outline processes that have the potential to foster more equitable, just, and compassionate family nursing practice.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2006

Toward a safer moral climate.

The authors define moral climate in the context of health care as the implicit and explicit values that drive health-care delivery and shape the workplaces in which care is delivered. Over the past six years, their research has focused on describing the moral climates of nurses' workplaces and improving them. In this article, the authors argue that nurses in direct care delivery roles have the insights, expertise and interpersonal skills required to create a much safer moral climate for practice. To make this happen, nurses require opportunities for self-reflection and for true collaboration with their colleagues in management and administration and other health-care disciplines.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2003

Through pragmatic eyes: philosophy and the re-sourcing of family nursing.

This paper explores the integral relationship between philosophy and nursing practice. The discussion begins by suggesting that philosophy is more than a set of abstract ideas or an intellectual activity; that it is a way of living and being in practice. The author contends that philosophical inquiry can improve the adequacy and relevance of family and nursing theories by promoting the examination and expansion of those theories in light of the experiences and intuitions of nurses. Offering a personal example the author exemplifies how philosophical activity can directly and experientially enhance everyday nursing practice.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2002

In the spirit of creativity: the learning and teaching of ethics in nursing.

AIM: This paper discusses the development of a pedagogy that nurtures not only the caring and the critical, but also the creative spirit of nursing. To explore the idea of creative pedagogy the learning/teaching of ethics in nursing is considered. BACKGROUND: Based on the understanding of ethics as a deeply personal process that is lived in the complexity and ambiguity of everyday nursing work I describe a pedagogy that seeks to support students to 'become' moral agents -- to see ethics as something they are, not merely as something they follow, and to develop the knowledge and ability to live in and navigate their way through the complex, ambiguous, and shifting terrain of ethical nursing practice. An example of one student's experience is used to illustrate how a pedagogy of creativity can promote the development of students' creative capacity in their everyday ethical practice.

Creativity↗
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Toward compassionate action: pragmatism and the inseparability of theory/practice.

Believing that the purpose of knowledge development and practice is compassionate action, in this article, we discuss how pragmatism can help us move toward that goal. Specifically, we show how pragmatic inquiry draws attention to the inseparability of practice/theory and the integral role practice experiences play in the ongoing development of theory. We demonstrate the utility of pragmatism to nursing by describing how we have explicitly approached theory development as a practical (and practice) activity of inquiry to attend to experiences of culture and diversity in family nursing.

Cultural Diversity↗