12 research outputs found
Educational and rehabilitation service utilization in adolescents born preterm or with a congenital heart defect and at high risk for disability
Eight-Year Developmental Follow-up in Children with Birthweights 1,251–1,500g in KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Respiratory Health, Lung Function, and Airway Responsiveness in School-Age Survivors of Very-Low-Birt-Weight
Nursing practice as bricoleur activity: a concept explored
The debates concerning the nature of nursing practice are often rooted in tensions between artistic, scientific and magical/mythical practice. It is within this context that the case is argued for considering that nursing practice involves bricoleur activity. This stance, which is derived from the work of Levi-Strauss, conceives elements of nursing practice as an embodied, bricoleur practice where practitioners draw on the 'shards and fragments' of the situation-at-hand to resolve the needs of the individual patient for whom they care. This conceptualisation of nursing practice will be analysed with a particular emphasis on its implication for nursing epistemology, pedagogy and praxis. The evidence to support this argument is drawn from empirical work that investigated nurses' use of intuition, the work of Levi-Strauss, and issues in nursing epistemology and ontology. The paper itself is written from the perspective of a bricoleur who uses 'bits and pieces' from the domains of nursing, philosophy, psychology, education, sociology and anthropology