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J A Sutherland

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Cognitive pathways and historical research.

The nursing literature is replete with articles detailing the logical reasoning processes required by the individual scientist to implement the rigors of research and theory development. Much less attention has been focused on creative and critical thinking as modes for deriving explanations, inferences, and conclusions essential to science as a product. Historical research, as a particular kind of qualitative research, is dependent on and compatible with such mental strategies as logical, creative, and critical thinking. These strategies depict an intellectual framework for the scientist examining archival data and offer a structure for such inquiry. A model for analyzing historical data delineating the cognitive pathways of logical reasoning, creative processing, and critical thinking is proposed.

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The Johari Window: a strategy for teaching therapeutic confrontation.

Planned and purposeful confrontation can increase patient self-awareness of deleterious attitudes and behaviors affecting physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning. Teaching the application of therapeutic confrontation from the perspective of the conceptual model, The Johari Window, broadens the student's understanding of its appropriate use in a wide variety of patient care situations.

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Historical concept analysis of empathy.

An analysis of the concept empathy was performed on archival, narrative accounts of Civil War nursing care using concept analysis strategies. Archival model cases are presented with elucidation of critical attributes, antecedents and consequences, and empirical referents of the concept. The antecedent phenomena of patient cues and consequent phenomena of patient responses serve to clarify instances of nurse empathy and establish preliminary and terminal boundaries of the concept. Empirical referents of the critical attributes identification, introjection, and intervention further explicate this abstract construct. Analysis of contrary, related, and borderline cases extracted from the historical accounts serve to clarify empathy. Most notable to the analysis is the existence of nursing interventions as a critical attribute and the nature of patient responses. Preliminary examination of the model cases indicates patient outcomes improve when empathy is extant in the interaction.

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