Towards a Hermeneutics on Ageing: Or What Gadamer Can Teach Us About Growing Old.

Ageing is one of life’s most pervasive shared experiences, and one that is imbued with social, cultural and bio-medical meaning. This paper begins a conversation on what hermeneutics, and in particular, the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer, can add to contemporary understandings of ageing

Book Review. Towards an Ecology of Nursing Knowledge: Nursing and Humanities by Dr. Graham McCaffrey

McCaffrey, G. (2020). Nursing and humanities. Routledge. (pp. 127, $63.95 CAD, Hardcover) Nursing and Humanities by Dr. Graham McCaffrey explores the role of humanities in nursing knowledge, and McCaffrey makes a compelling case that humanities are an integral, though often invisible, part of nursing practice. He places nursing humanities within the sphere of health humanities and provides a cogent argument, along with examples and insights, to support the claim that the humanities offer not merely another form of knowledge to sit alongside science, but also a way to integrate the diversity of nursing knowledge into a coherent framework or ecology of nursing practice. In this respect, the book serves as an important development in understanding nursing practice and forms a possible bridge between the tensions inherent in contemporary explorations of nursing as an art and science. The book is aimed at nurses, graduate students, nurse educators and researchers, and anyone with an interest in nursing theory. Nursing and Humanities is rich with ideas and propositions, often thought-provoking and challenging in its offering of an evolution of thinking about nursing knowledge and practice.   &nbsp

Editorial: Transporting History: Last Night My Parents' House Was Moved

On history, home, and identity..

Identifying outcomes associated with co-managed care models for patients who have sustained a hip fracture: an integrative literature review

Aims and objectives: The aim of this integrative literature review is to identify themes associated with improved patient outcomes related to orthogeriatric co-managed inpatient unit models of care for patients who had sustained a hip fracture. Approach: An integrative literature review was undertaken from 2002-July 2013 using electronic databases with specific search terms. Methods: The theoretical framework of Whittemore and Knafl was used to guide the review. This framework was chosen as it allows for the inclusion of varied methodologies and has the capability to increase informed evidence-based nursing practice. Results: Five distinct themes relating to outcomes emerged from the analysis, which were: time from admission to surgery; complications; length of stay; mortality and initiation of osteoporosis treatment. Conclusion: The analysis of this integrative literature review clearly indicates the need for national and international sets of agreed outcome measures to be adopted to facilitate the comparison of models of care. This would significantly improve the way in which outcomes and costs are reported, further enhancing international partnerships as the health care team strive to achieve overall improvements in the management of older people presenting to hospital with hip fracture

Repository accademici italiani: un'analisi e una proposta di definizione del servizio

Co-supervisore: Angela Maria NuovoopenIl presente lavoro compie un'analisi diacronica dei repository accademici in Italia, allo scopo di descriverne l'evoluzione e lo stato dell'arte, e di mettere in evidenza le criticità tuttora esistenti. Dai risultati di tale analisi scaturisce la riflessione su quali debbano essere le azioni da intraprendere per rendere i repository delle realtà mature e ben inserite nel sistema università. La tesi intende quindi proporre buone pratiche e raccomandazioni per il corretto sviluppo presso ciascun ateneo italiano di un valido servizio di raccolta, gestione, conservazione e disseminazione della propria produzione scientifica, quale dovrebbe essere il repository istituzionale (IR).Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze bibliografiche, archivistiche, documentarie e per la conservazione e il restauro dei beni librari e archivisticiopenVenturato, Claudi

Analisi teorica del fenomeno dello shadow banking

Il documento ha come fine l'analisi teorica del fenomeno dello shadow banking alla ricerca di sintetizzare i principali argomenti a favore e metterne alla luce le debolezzeope