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M K Maeve

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PubMed1999

The social construction of love and sexuality in a women's prison.

Incarcerated women have numerous physical, social, and emotional health care needs, including specific needs related to their expressions of sexuality while in prison. This report describes the results of a participatory action research study with incarcerated women utilizing critical hermeneutic data analysis techniques. While the public's view of sexuality between incarcerated women borders on the prurient and profane, this study suggests that women in prison continue to be sexual beings who come to "participate" in love and sex with one another based on their need for relationship and friendship. It is suggested that prison bureaucracies define women through a sexual lens, dually grounding their identities in the crimes they were sent to prison for and the perceived crimes of their sexuality. The need for nursing involvement and intervention with this marginalized and stigmatized population is discussed.

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PubMed1998

Weaving a fabric of moral meaning: how nurses live with suffering and death.

Nursing has a long and rich history of caring for those who are sick and suffering, as well as for those who are dying. The threat of death, and/or the reality of suffering till death, for patients, is a reality in the lives of nurses. The purpose of this study was to examine how nurses live with patients who are suffering and dying. Founded on notions of relationship and embodiment, naturalistic inquiry was used to generate and analyse qualitative data from nine nurses who, at the time of the study, were working with patients whom they described as suffering or dying. Findings reflected how the nurses used the dilemmas of their patients' lives to inform their own personal and professional lives through a process of 'weaving a fabric of moral meaning'. Findings are discussed in terms of practice, research and education.

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PubMed1997

Caring in full circle: the legacy of Edith Honeycutt.

Edith Folsom Honeycutt, now retired, is the only staff nurse in the United States to be honored by a funded chair at a major university. In 1990, a chair of oncology nursing was established in her name at Emory University by the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Foundation. A life history method was used to examine the professional life of Edith Honeycutt through interviews and with a focus group of nurses who had worked with her. Three themes emerged: teaching by showing; expecting excellent practice; and investing in each other. A synthesized overall theme of "caring in full circle" was identified as the core descriptor. The findings of this study demonstrate how clinical education and expertise are shared and learned among staff nurses. Findings also suggest how nursing knowledge can be, and is, developed at the bedside. The connection between Emory University and Edith Honeycutt demonstrates an enduring link between a university setting and a practice arena.

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PubMed1997

Aesthetic inquiry and the art of nursing.

This article describes the development of aesthetic inquiry and the emerging conceptualization of the art of nursing as an art form. Aesthetic knowing, which emerges from aesthetic inquiry, is described as connoisseurship of the art of nursing and includes appreciation of the art form and insight into meanings of the art. A method of aesthetic criticism is described that links artistic experience, history, form, alternate meanings, and future possibilities. The inquiry yielded two essential elements of the art of nursing, movement and narrative, which, when manifested as an art form have the capacity to shift experience into a different realm.

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PubMed1994

The carrier bag theory of nursing practice.

The carrier bag theory of nursing practice is a reinterpretation of how nursing is known and practiced that explicitly acknowledges and values nursing's oral and experiential traditions. An assumption of this work is that the region of experience that is nursing has been effectively divided into two worlds--academia and the world of practice. This has resulted in a theory-practice gap and an elite class-working class gap, as well as a gap between epistemes, or "knowing that" versus "knowing how." This article describes the development of reflective practice and resulting narratives from a critical perspective as a way of creating a pathway between the two worlds of nursing and honoring scholarship in all the ways nursing is known and practiced.

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PubMed1992

Nursing care partnerships at the Denver Nursing Project in Human Caring: an application and extension of caring theory in practice.

Jean Watson's theory of nursing as the art and science of human caring provides the framework for practice at the Denver Nursing Project in Human Caring, a nurse-managed center for people living with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this article is to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a new model of nursing practice at the Caring Center, called nursing care partnerships. Client and nurse narrative accounts are presented as a means of grounding the reader in the care partners' relationships that are formed during the journey of HIV/AIDS.

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Speaking unavoidable truths: understanding early childhood sexual and physical violence among women in prison.

Women in prison have often suffered physical and sexual abuse as children which substantively contributes to their substance abuse, violence, and criminal behaviors. To understand women's offending, and subsequent health issues, it is helpful to understand their own victimization. In this participative action research, women used poetry as both a process and a product to confront the truths of their lives in terms of what was done to them and what they have done to others and themselves. As the women learned to speak their own truths, those same truths became unavoidable to themselves. This rise into consciousness is demonstrated through excerpts from the participants' writings.

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Nursing practice with incarcerated women: caring within mandated (sic) alienation.

The number of incarcerated women in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate. Incarcerated women often come from environments that are significant for violence, drug abuse, and a kind of chronic chaos. Many enter the penal system with acute and chronic physical problems along with mental health issues that have long gone unaddressed. From a critical hermeneutical perspective, professional and personal experience and dialogical engagement with other prison nurses are combined to examine the structure and development of caring practices behind prison walls. Analysis to date reveals the distorting and perverting effect prison systems have on the practice of nursing, a situation in which personal relationships are forbidden. In substantive ways, nurses are ordered not to care.

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