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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
The data where analysed through the technique of the content
analysis in the word processor Microsoft Word 2000. The analysis
took place through the process of Categorization after the
examination of all units obtained from the meaning of the
transcription interviews and of the description of the observations.
In a process of constant comparison and triangulation, we
constructed one codification tree, constituted by the great emergent
categories of the carried out analysis.
Summary of key findings
Nurse’s actions correspond to the caring processes that according to
SWANSON (1991) include Knowing, Beeing with, Doing for,
Enabling and Maintaining belief. Actions like Enabling and Beeing
with were more valued.
Enabling actions reflected nurse’s pedagogic actions and their ability
to act in partnership.
Nurses Preserve client dignity, and manifest an Integration
Paradigm predominant orientation, according to the importance that
nurses attribute to the trust relationship, proximity and client's wellbeing.
In the domain of Nurses practice, nurses seem to be fit in a model
that seems to have underlying conceptions, beliefs and values
where the center of the intervention is the person.
They reveal agreement among Intentions expression , Care practice
and Expected outcomes and frequently express Feelings of Wellbeing
and Satisfaction within client interaction.
Conclusions
The agreement among nurses intentions expression, Care practice
and expected outcomes is representative of nurse’s coherence in
the expression of their actions and intentions.
Description of nurse’s practice allowed to know and understand in
depth the observed reality, and underlined a need of increasing
reflection spaces on health units, to help turning conscious the
orientation of nurses practice and to allow nurses personal reflection
on its form of taking care.
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coping in health and Illness, Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park.
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