Publications by authors named "Don Flaming"

Background: Genomic technologies such as genetic testing and precision treatments are rapidly becoming routine in oncology care, and nurses play an increasingly important role in supporting the growing demands for genomics-informed healthcare. Policy infrastructure such as competencies, standards, scope of practice statements, and education and curriculum frameworks are urgently needed to guide these practice and education changes.

Purpose: This study is part of a larger three-phase project to develop recommendations and catalyze action for genomics-informed oncology nursing education and practice for the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology and the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing.

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Ethical risks are routinely assessed and mitigated in research studies. The same risks can exist in program evaluations and quality improvement initiatives and yet may not be routinely and comprehensively addressed. The authors present a conceptual framework that can help organizations develop comprehensive ethics review processes for non-research knowledge-generating projects (NRKGPs).

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Les leaders en santé gèrent de nombreux types de risques. Le risque éthique associé aux multiples projets et activités, réalisés régulièrement hors du secteur de la recherche, est probablement négligé (p. ex.

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Appropriate ethics review is required.

Healthc Manage Forum

January 2017

Health leaders manage many types of risk. One type of risk that may be underrecognized is the ethical risk in the many projects and activities that are done regularly besides research (eg, program evaluation, quality improvement, and health innovation). Applying clinical, personal, professional, and organizational ethics can help address the risks but are insufficient by themselves or in combination.

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Many people assume that quality improvement (QI) projects pose no ethical issues in relation to participants or their rights. However, members of the Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI) submit that all projects that generate knowledge, including QI projects, can create risks to participants that need to be identified, assessed and addressed in the context of the kind of project. The possibility of risk raises the question of ethical conduct in QI projects.

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Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault enjoy a privileged status in nursing academia as two thinkers who influence both nursing research and philosophical explorations of nursing practice. Most nurse authors, however, focus only on the earlier works of these two philosophers and, for example, base qualitative research methodologies on Foucault's genealogy and Ricoeur's hermeneutics. In their later years, both these writers talk more explicitly about being an ethical self.

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By understanding the constructions of knowledge we currently label nursing theories as nursing ontologies, nurses can perceive these conceptualizations differently. Paul Ricoeur and Stephen White offer a conceptualization of ontology that differs from traditional, realist perspectives because they assume that a person's experience of a phenomenon (e.g.

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Background: Around the time of Plato and Aristotle, writing was introduced into the Western world and caused an epistemological revolution. Academics describe this change from pre-literacy to literacy as the alphabetization of a society. If societies have no written alphabet or words, knowledge transmission is oral.

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Nursing excellence is usually defined in terms of having and applying more and more knowledge, especially from nursing science--the more nurses know, the better their practice. This conceptualization of nursing practice has similarities with the ancient Greek mode of reasoning called techne but cannot adequately deal with the ambiguities of everyday nursing. Nursing excellence does occur, however, with phronetic, ontological practice in which a nurse's morals, habits, and dispositions guide practice.

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