Hermeneutics as an approach to inform spiritual care-giving practices at end of life
| dc.contributor.author | Mayer, Debra | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Stajduhar, Kelli | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Bruce, Anne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-14T22:31:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-14T22:31:52Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2012 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-06-14 | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Nursing | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Nursing M.N. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Hermeneutics, the art of interpretation, has traditionally been an integral part of nursing research; however, little attention has been devoted to nursing’s pivotal role as interpreter in the context of nursing practice. Guided by a hermeneutic philosophy, nursing practice is informed through engaging in a dialogic or conversational journey, a way of being. The aim of my project is to illuminate the possibility of introducing a modified four-fold hermeneutical model of interpretation as an approach to inform spiritual care-giving nursing practices at end of life (Charalambous, 2010). According to this model, a patient is perceived as a literary text and the process of interpretation unfolds with: (a) the object of interpretation, (b) the mode of interpretation, (c) the praxis of life-affecting response flowing from the interpretation, and (d) the change of life-world brought about through the interpretation (Charalambous, 2010). This model is illustrated through the presentation of a practice exemplar. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4010 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | end of life | en_US |
| dc.subject | care-giving practice | en_US |
| dc.subject | spirituality | en_US |
| dc.subject | hermeneutics | en_US |
| dc.title | Hermeneutics as an approach to inform spiritual care-giving practices at end of life | en_US |
| dc.type | project | en_US |