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JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
An interpretative phenomenological study of Chinese mothers’ experiences of constant vigilance in caring for a hospitalized sick child
Regina L.T. Lee & Vicky W.K. Lau
Accepted for publication 6 October 2012
Correspondence to R.L.T. Lee: e-mail: hsrlee@polyu.edu.hk Regina L.T. Lee PhD RN Assistant Professor School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China Vicky W.K. Lau MN RN Advanced Practice Nurse Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, Hong Kong, China
An interpretative phenomenological
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The mothers in these studies felt disempowered because they were inadequately informed about their role when their children were hospitalized. Most of these studies used a quantitative approach to identify the needs of parents caring for their sick, hospitalized children in Western countries (Blower & Morgan 2000, Shields & Pratt 2000 Shields & Pratt 2006, Shields et al. 2011). Some critical studies on parental caregiving experiences have also been carried out in the West (Shirk & Karver 2003, German et al. 2009), but little has been done in Hong Kong ´ on the study of general paediatric care. If healthcare providers understood the meaning of mothers’ role in caring for their hospitalized child, it would be easier for them to understand what mothers really need and would strengthen the relationships between nurses and mothers. The purpose of this study was to examine Chinese mothers’ experience of caring for their hospitalized child in general paediatric care. It has been found that any unexpected illness in a child deeply disrupts the typical functioning of the family (Stancin et al. 2001, Kennedy et al. 2004). Research on the processes by which parents cope with stressful situations has firmly demonstrated that parenting practices have a direct effect on children’s behaviours and outcomes, and that trauma and stress may impact their abilities to function as parents in a variety of circumstances (Abidin 1995, Santacroce 2003,
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Five points of area that affect nursing care when taking care of a Chinese patient, are the cultural beliefs with medical treatments, who and when to discuss the prognosis and medical treatment to, dietary beliefs, pregnancies beliefs, and death and dying.
Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2014). NR500 Foundational Concepts and Applications: Week 2 lesson. [Lecture notes]. St. Louis, MO: online publication.
According to Erlingsson and Brysiewicz (2015), family is considered a core, social institution and is our first interaction with human beings. When viewing the family as a context, the nurse assesses the patient that is in need of care while in the background, there are the family members of the patient. According to Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steel, Tabacco & Hanson (2015), the source of support to the patient is his or her family members. Usually family members are in attendance with the patient. This approach is used when a mother is admitted to the intensive care unit after falling and sustaining head trauma. The patient is the mother. The nurse is focused on the mother and care was directed
There were many examples in which the healthcare team showcase empathy and cultural sensitivity for Lia’s parents. First, the doctor accepted the parents to practice their rituals and even let them administrated their own medicine to their child. In addition, the doctors and nurses did not press charges after Nao Kao had pushed her against the wall.
Asian cultures have a very strong family bond and this is very important to them and often surpasses that of an individual. The older family members are rarely questioned and therefore they are often the decision makers and will decide for themselves after being made to go to a hospital that they do not want treatment and all health care providers must respect this decision and be culturally competent in handling the situation. One must not make a patient or family feel bad due to their cultural decisions. We must look at our own beliefs as nurses in order to know what our beliefs are in order to understand those of our patients.
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In the profession of nursing, an essential aspect is the ability for a nurse to provide culturally competent care to each one of his/her patients. This requires the nurse to understand how a person’s culture can affect the way they care for them. The focus of this paper will be on a model put together to assist nurses in providing care to culturally diverse patients, specifically caring for patients a part of the Chinese culture in the children and family transition of life. The summary and application of the six phenomena in the relation to the Chinese culture followed by the nursing implications of those cultural variances are described below.
From a pediatric perspective, the family is an integral part of the healthcare team. Parents are the primary ally and resource in providing individualized care for their child. Even in adult patients, who they are is impacted by the relationships that they have. Serious or chronic illnesses and injuries affect the entire family. The family, then, becomes the patient, particularly when it is necessary to make lifestyle changes.
If these examples aren’t enough to convince someone of Thomas King’s mistakes, the comparison to male characters might just do it. An article posted to The Atlantic titled It 's Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That 's Not About Love by Kelsey McKinney has a tag line that perfectly sums this point: “Literary girls don 't take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men”. There is no better way to explain exactly what happens in King’s novel. Lionel goes on his journey of self discovery throughout the novel, deciding if he should go back to university, if he should quit working at Bill Bursum’s shop, etc. Charlie thinks back on his past with his father, and Eli relives his life from moving out of the reservation to coming back, and leaving a life behind. Though their stories may have some hints of love, and of women whom they wish to be with or perhaps wish to get away from, their journeys of self discovery are rooted internally for the most part. They are about how they feel, and who they have come to be, their identity as indigenous Canadians. Meanwhile, Latisha and Alberta are stuck recovering from past relationships with men. They are trying to navigate in a world built for men and establish their identities as independent women. Notice now, how one group’s identity has nothing to do with their gender, and notice how that is not the women.
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For many years I have struggled with a career choice. I have known for quite some time that I wanted to do something with animals but I wasn’t sure what that was. When I began my freshman year in college I was on the line of whether I wanted to be a full on Veterinarian or get a degree as a Veterinary Technician. Now, with the end of my freshman year approaching, I have decided to be a Veterinary Technician. Although some believe that a career as a Veterinarian is better, I believe a career as a Veterinary Technician is good because salaries are decent, it doesn’t require as much schooling, and helping animals is very satisfying to animal lovers like
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Department of Material and Clinical Health, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (Received 20 March 1995;revised 13 January 1996;accepted 11 March 1996)
On arrival, Joe’s mother Catherine was distressed and throughout every stage of Joe’s care it was important Catherine was provided with clear information in order to empower her to make informed choices regarding Joe’s care (Glasper et al. 2010). Parental involvement was introduced after the Platt Report in 1959 which recommended that parents should be allowed to stay with their hospitalised child. The report has led to significant improvements in interactions between parents of hospitalised children and the staff who care for them (Priddis and Sheilds 2011). Sousa et al (2013) carried out a study that found communication between parents and children’s nurses is vital. Sousa et al (2013) found that almost all parents who participated in the questionnaire agreed it was a priority to get information on their child’s health condition. This indicates that is important for nurses to manage the child and family as a whole holistically (NMC 2015). Catherine
Civic virtue and its implications for individuals and society has been a subject studied and contemplated by many great philosophers. Virtue is a subject where philosophers do not absolutely agree on its meanings and implications. However, many great philosophers share similar thoughts on the subject, while others differ in aspects on their idea of virtue. Philosophers comprehension and opinions on the topic derive from their historical era, other philosophers, and the history of the Western civilization. To understand virtue one must examine virtue’s meaning, formation, types, equality, importance to society, religious implications, and the different degrees of virtue leaders and citizens must have.