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Patricia Benner's introduction to phenomenology develops the reader's understanding of the strategies and processes involved in this innovative approach to nursing. The author discusses the relationship between theory and practice, considers the possibility of a science of caring from a feminist perspective, introduces interpretive phenomenology to the study of natural groups such as families, and suggests a basis for developing nursing ethics that is true to the caring and healing practices of the nursing profession.
Parenting in Public: Parental Participation and Involvement in the Care of their Hospitalized Child
Parenting in Public: Parental Participation and Involvement in the Care of their Hospitalized Child
The desirability of encouraging parents to live in with their hospitalized child is widely accepted. In the latest U.K. government report, Welfare of Children and Young People in Hospital (U.K. Department of Health, 1991), it is stated that “A cardinal principle of hospital services for children is complete ease of access to the child by his parents, and to other members of the family…. This is not a luxury” (p. 16). This chapter examines the meaning of this “cardinal principle” for both live-in parents and pediatric nurses.
Hospitalization has long been recognized as a potentially stressful experience for both ...
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