A hermeneutic reappraisal of nurse patient relationships on acute mental health units, using Buddhist perspectives
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2012
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This dissertation is a hermeneutic study of the nurse-patient relationship on acute care, inpatient mental health units, using Buddhist perspectives. At its centre is a research study in the form of interpretive analysis of interview data from nurses with experience of working in acute mental health settings. The work in its entirety functions as a triangulation between the topic of nurse-patient relationship, Buddhist thought, and philosophical hermeneutics as an approach to research. Each of the three elements serves to illumine something about the others in a series of reciprocal discussions. There is necessarily a linear structure to the dissertation, so that one of the three elements is highlighted in a given chapter, but with reference to the other two. The arc of the work thus proceeds through the background to the topic and a discursive literature review; philosophical hermeneutics; Buddhist thought; hermeneutics in a research context; interpretive chapters based on interview data; and implications for practice. This is an intercultural study, in which different traditions of thought and practice are exposed to each other without any intention of subordinating one to another, but of allowing for a shifting of perspective and creation of new understanding. Among the three elements, however, the target is of course nursing practice and the extension of the theoretical, philosophical, and practical vocabularies, which are available to the nursing profession to articulate and develop its therapeutic practice with nurse-patient relationship.
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Bibliography: p. 233-254
Includes copy of ethics approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
Includes copy of ethics approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
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McCaffrey, G. (2012). A hermeneutic reappraisal of nurse patient relationships on acute mental health units, using Buddhist perspectives (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4956