The nursing profession has a long history of advocating for social justice and health equity, and both values profoundly infuse nursing ethics, theory, and education. Homecare nursing occurs between the patient's daily life at home and the public health care system. Therefore, homecare nurses ideally possess insight into the living conditions and social determinants of health that their patients experience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nursing is historically, ethically, and theoretically mandated to champion social justice.
Objective: To investigate how the concept of "social justice" has been explored in nursing research regarding extent, range, and nature.
Methods: The five-stage framework by Arksey and O'Malley was adopted, and JBI and PRISMA guidelines further informed the study.
Aim: To describe lifeworld insights into the phenomenon of caring responsibility from the perspectives of persons aged 80+ years living alone with chronic illness, physical frailty and dependency on adult children.
Design: A phenomenological inquiry inspired by Reflective Lifeworld Research.
Method: Semi-structured lifeworld interviews with 11 persons aged 80+ years were conducted following their discharge.
Aim: To provide lifeworld insights into experiences of adult children with caring responsibility for an 80+-year-old chronically ill parent with frailty.
Background: Informal care is common in Nordic welfare countries; however, little is known about adult children's experience of caring responsibility in this setting.
Design: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study based on Reflective Lifeworld Research.
At Department of Nursing, University College Lillebaelt in Denmark we use an experiential technique called sculpting in our simulation program. Sculpting is a kind of non-verbal role play in which participants are given a certain character and create a 'sculpture' by arranging family members, social circles and professionals in ways which reflect the quality of the relationships of the people involved. The aim of this study is to further describe the sculpting exercise and present a small scale evaluation study using a qualitative descriptive design.
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