Exploring risk in professional nursing practice: an analysis of work refusal and professional risk.

This article explores risk in professional nursing practice. Professional risk refers to the threat of professional discipline if it is found that a registered nurse has violated professional nursing practice standards. We argue professional risk is socially constructed and understood differently by nurse regulatory bodies, unions, professional associations and frontline nurses.

Victims twice over: perceptions and experiences of injured workers.

The authors discuss the qualitative component of a participatory research project conducted in Toronto, Ontario, between 1999 and 2001. Injured workers, who were trained as peer researchers, conducted one-time, semistructured interviews with other injured workers (N = 17) and helped with inductive coding and analyzing the interview transcripts. The qualitative research group consisted of seven peer researchers, four academic researchers, and a community legal worker.

Mediating complaints against nurses: a consumer-oriented educational approach.

A participatory evaluative method was used to assess the effectiveness of mediation as carried out by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Qualitative methods were used to examine 34 cases between 1994 and 1998, of which 23 had been successful and 11 aborted. For purposes of comparison, the researchers developed a template of interviews with College personnel and documents, incorporating the College's philosophy and expectations of the process.