Biomedical subjects

V Nahas

Publications and source records attributed to V Nahas.

11 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

A transcultural study of Jordanian nursing students' care encounters within the context of clinical education.

Clinical education is an integral part of nursing education. Clinical teachers are the vital link in this teaching-learning process. The quality and quantity of student-teacher interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hinder students' learning. This paper presents a part of a larger study that discovered, described, explained and compared Australian and Jordanian nursing students' caring and non-caring encounters with their clinical teachers within the context of clinical education. The study was guided by Leininger's theory of culture care universality and diversity and Leininger's ethnonursing research method was utilised. The informants consisted of 12 key informants and 35 general informants. Three major themes emerged from the analysis of the data: (1) clinical teacher's caring behaviours; (2) student-teacher caring encounters; and (3) caring encounter consequences. Under these themes, care constructs emerged which gave light to the Jordanian nursing students' care meanings, expressions and values within their cultural environment, social structures and world view. The overall findings revealed that Jordanian nursing students found their clinical experiences as beneficial when their encounters with the clinical teacher were conducted through mothering, translating, sustaining, negotiating and transforming processes.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1999

Culture care meanings and experiences of postpartum depression among Jordanian Australian women: a transcultural study.

This study discovers, describes, and explains the personal experiences, perceptions, and care meanings of Jordanian women who have suffered postpartum depression. Most postpartum cases often are misdiagnosed as exclusively psychological and untreated by health care professionals without consideration to the cultural meanings of this problem. Understanding the experiences of these women is important, as their expressions often are contextually and culturally influenced. Using Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, a purposive sample of 22 Jordanian women diagnosed with postpartum depression, living in Sydney, were interviewed. The ethnonursing research method and data analysis procedures were used. Results revealed that Jordanian mothers experienced severe loss of control over emotions of loneliness, hopelessness, and feelings of being a bad mother. Three major themes focusing on the care meanings and experiences of Jordanian women are discussed: (a) Care means strong family support and kinship during the postpartum period, (b) care is carrying out and fulfilling traditional gender roles as mother and wife, and (c) care is preservation of Jordanian childbearing customs as expressed in the celebration of the birth of the baby.

Adult↗

PubMed1996

Nursing specialization in New South Wales, Australia.

SPECIALIZATION IN NURSING is a phenomenon that occurs worldwide. In New South Wales, Australia, the positions of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and clinical nurse consultant (CNC) were formally established only in the last decade. How these positions developed and the responses to the roles are considered in this article. In 1990/1991, we surveyed 568 specialist nurses (CNSs and CNCs) working in the Sydney metropolitan area to identify their perceptions of what they ought to be doing and what they were actually doing in the performance of their roles. The results revealed discrepancies in perceptions of the potential role and the actual role. Comments indicated the challenging nature of the roles and thematic analysis of the comments identified problem areas related to role performance, such as workload and role conflict. Further research should be undertaken to explore the origins of role expectations and current role satisfaction.

Adult↗

PubMed1966