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M A Ruffing-Rahal

Publications and source records attributed to M A Ruffing-Rahal.

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PubMed1992

Incorporating feminism into the graduate curriculum.

Feminist theory and methods are vital catalysts to teaching/learning in graduate education. This article describes how feminism was integrated into a graduate course, specifically regarding nursing activism and health policy. Major themes include a learning model emphasizing the student's individual strands of life experience, reconstruction of nursing history, and small-group process. Class assignments, student responses, and the implications of feminist perspectives for advanced professional practice are discussed.

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PubMed1991

Ethnographic traits in the writing of Mary Breckinridge.

Mary Breckinridge, founder of The Frontier Nursing Service, employed ethnographic methodologies--participant observation, interviewing and fieldwork--as foundation efforts toward construction of highly responsive health-service systems, developed under circumstances of duress, e.g. after World War I and pre-industrial Appalachia. In culturally representing the Appalachian, she drew upon two vast resources, her first-hand field experience as well as her considerable rhetorical skill. She narrated and described an enormity of selected 'realities' of Appalachian life with immediacy of detail and nonpatronizing sensitivity for 'insider' perspectives. In an era of transition with few indigenous cultural writers, Breckinridge capitalized on her family heritage in Appalachia, which further underscored the intimacy and authenticity of her accounts. As portrayed in her autobiography, crosscultural encounters of one kind and time or another supplied an infrastructure of longstanding meaning throughout her life. The final and lasting impression is that, in both skills and orientation, Breckinridge's were essentially those of the ethnographer.

Appalachian Region↗
PubMed1991

Rationale and design for health promotion with older adults.

The paper underscores the relevance of preventive and well health practices for older adults, given the current potential for extended life spans. One model for health promotion interventions consists of self-care skills, emotional and spiritual integration, and social integration. It was based on research in which older adults identified dimensions of everyday well-being.

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PubMed1986

Personal documents and nursing theory development.

Personal documents, notably autobiographical accounts, supply a compelling realm of phenomenological data for nursing theory, providing insight and understanding into the nonnormative nature of health and health-related experience. Personal documents occasion a discussion of empathic understanding as an analytical component of human science and illness as an occasion of heightened personal awareness. Triangulation research strategies are advocated as a means of incorporating personal experience data in nursing research.

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PubMed1985

Client well-being in drug treatment: a social ecological analysis.

A social ecological model of well-being, defined as subjective affirmation by clients regarding treatment experiences, was tested using county demographic data and responses of clients and therapeutic staff in community drug treatment programs registered in the State of Ohio. Multivariate analyses were conducted of a trilogy of variable constellations [Client Background, Therapeutic Proficiency, and Community Development] in relation to Client Well-Being. Findings upheld the origins of well-being in social environments and supported an evaluative focus on client experience in human service organizations.

Community Mental Health Services↗