Heideggerian phenomenological hermeneutics: Working with the data.

It is one thing to read about the methodology and methods of Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological research, the ontic description. It is quite another thing to be faced with an interview transcript. This article draws on a study that asked doctoral students about their experience of doing such research.

Reading Heidegger.

Heidegger's philosophy is a significant contribution to understanding the meaning of lived experience. Recognizing this, nurses and other health professionals have taken on the research approach of Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology. This requires reading the writing of Heidegger.

Unsettling moods in rural midwifery practice.

Background: Rural midwifery and maternity care is vulnerable due to geographical isolation, staffing recruitment and retention. Highlighting the concerns within rural midwifery is important for safe sustainable service delivery.

Method: Hermeneutic phenomenological study undertaken in New Zealand (NZ).

Patient advocacy by nurses - past, present and future.

Background: Patient advocacy is central to the nursing profession yet a sense of certainty about the concept, its meaning and its implications for nursing practice remains elusive.

Aim: This scholarly paper examines the concept of patient advocacy and its relevance to the nursing profession in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Design: A broad historical overview of the evolution of the role of advocacy in nursing practice is provided including factors that encourage or discourage nurses to practice patient advocacy.

Crafting Stories in Hermeneutic Phenomenology Research: A Methodological Device.

Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a methodology, is not fixed. Inherent in its enactment are contested areas of practice such as how interview data are used and reported. Using philosophical notions drawn from hermeneutic phenomenological literature, we argue that working with crafted stories is congruent with the philosophical underpinnings of this methodology.

Kairos time at the moment of birth.

Background: there is something extraordinary in the lived experience of being there at the time of birth. Yet the meaning and significance of this special time, named Kairos time in this paper, have received little attention.

Aim: to describe the lived-experience of Kairos time at birth and surface its meaning.

Humanitarian Nursing in Developing Countries: A Phenomenological Analysis.

Background: Surgical nursing within humanitarian contexts is complex, sporadically described in literature and little understood.

Aim: To achieve a deeper understanding of the lived experience of New Zealand nurses providing humanitarian aid within surgical settings and war zones in developing countries.

Method: In-depth conversational interviews were undertaken with four New Zealand nurses whose humanitarian experience lay in general surgical, military, and intensive care settings.

The joy at birth: an interpretive hermeneutic literature review.

Objectives: this literature review examines the experience of joy at birth and what that joy means. The premise is that the whole of the birthing experience has not been fully explicated in the literature and that something of significance remains unexplored and unspoken. It is argued that a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to reviewing literature provides unique insights and leads to deeper understandings about birth and the experience of joy that attunes at that moment.

Dementia: The need for attitudinal change.

Objective: To undertake a systematic inquiry into the experience of living with dementia in the community.

Design: Action research, underpinned by critical hermeneutics, brought together action and reflection, theory and practice to generate knowledge. Data were gathered by interviews and observations in participants' homes, and focus group discussions in community settings.

Mood and birth experience.

Background: Those at the birth of a baby sometimes speak of the experience as significant and meaningful; an experience in which there is an atmosphere or mood that surrounds the occasion. This paper explores this mood, its recognition, disclosure and how we attune or not to it. The paper is philosophically underpinned by hermeneutic phenomenology.

Oral hygiene care in the pediatric intensive care unit: practice recommendations.

Oral hygiene significantly affects children's well being. It is an integral part of intensive and critical care nursing because intubated and ventilated children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) are dependent on the health care team to tend to their everyday basic needs. Fourteen articles were identified as being relevant to pediatric oral care in the PICU.

A qualitative study of youth living with Crohn disease.

Little is known about what it is like to live in adolescence with a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. This article reports the findings of a small qualitative study that explored the experience of four New Zealand youth aged between 16 and 21 years, who had been recently diagnosed with Crohn disease. Semistructured interviews focused on discovering the youth' thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of living with this condition.

Courage as integral to advancing nursing practice.

Courage is an elusive but fundamental component of nursing. Yet it is seldom mentioned in professional texts and other literature nor is it often recognised and supported in practice. This paper focuses on the illumination of courage in nursing.

Implementing a prescribing practicum within a Master's degree in advanced nursing practice.

The recent introduction of Nurse Practitioner registration in New Zealand has resulted in the development of a number of Master's degree programmes in which students focus clinically and can complete a Nursing Council of New Zealand approved programme for prescribing. This article reports the implementation of a collaborative project undertaken to monitor and improve the effectiveness of the prescribing practicum papers delivered within two Master's degree programmes in advanced nursing practice. A developmental action research approach was used.

Within the web: the family-practitioner relationship in the context of chronic childhood illness.

This hermeneutic phenomenological study explores the relationship between health professionals and families who have a child with a chronic illness. Study participants included 10 family groups who had a child with a chronic illness and 12 practitioners from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, dietetics, physiotherapy and speech therapy. Data were collected by narrative audiotaped interviewing.

Hermeneutic notions augment cultural safety education.

Nurses are beginning to demand educational approaches that confront racism, rather than teach cultural diversity. One example of the latter approach is the introduction of kawa whakaruruhau, or cultural safety, in nursing and midwifery education in New Zealand. In the nursing and midwifery context of kawa whakaruruhau, nurses and midwives recognize, respect, and nurture the unique cultural identity of New Zealand's indigenous people, the tangata whenua, and safely meets their needs, expectations, and rights.

Win-win-win: collaboration advances critical care practice.

Against a background of increasing interest in education post registration, New Zealand nurses are working to advance their professional practice. Because the acquisition of highly developed clinical capabilities requires a combination of nursing experience and education, collaboration between clinicians and nurse educators is essential. However, the accessibility of relevant educational opportunities has been an ongoing issue for nurses outside the country's main centres.

Nursing people from cultures other than one's own: a perspective from New Zealand.

Nursing a person from another culture is a dynamic, complex and tension-filled phenomenon. It is also always culturally and historically situated. This paper provides an overview of the evolving meaning of 'culture' in New Zealand nursing.