Narration
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Instructive messages from Chinese nurses' stories of caring for SARS patients.

29 Sep 2009 AIM: To identify instructive messages to guide nursing practice in future epidemics by examining the stories of Chinese nurses who cared for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients. BACKGROUND: Mainland China had three outbreaks of SARS ... Read more...

Association of an educational program in mindful communication with burnout, empathy, and attitudes among primary care physicians.

21 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Primary care physicians report high levels of distress, which is linked to burnout, attrition, and poorer quality of care. Programs to reduce burnout before it results in impairment are rare; data on these programs are scarce. OBJECTIVE: To ... Read more...

The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit.

30 Aug 2009 This article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating how critical care nurses include families in end-of-life care. The major theme, "Supporting the Families' Journey Through the Dying Process," illustrates how critical care ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Narration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Narratives about cancer--the meeting with health care] 20 Oct 2009
• Instructive messages from Chinese nurses' stories of caring for SARS patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of an educational program in mindful communication with burnout, empathy, and attitudes among primary care physicians. 21 Sep 2009
• A piece of my mind. Years of stories. 7 Sep 2009
• The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit. 30 Aug 2009
• Exploring patients' reasons for discontinuance of heart medications. 30 Aug 2009
• Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch. 30 Aug 2009
• Misgivings. 30 Aug 2009
• Quiet moments. 30 Aug 2009
• The resilience of Native American elders. 30 Aug 2009
• Age differences in tracking characters during narrative comprehension. 30 Aug 2009
• How did we lose it--and can we ever get it back? 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of social stigma on the process of obtaining informed consent for genetic research on podoconiosis: a qualitative study. 20 Aug 2009
• A piece of my mind. A paucity of physicians. 10 Aug 2009
• Struck by lightning or slowly suffocating - gendered trajectories into depression. 9 Aug 2009
• N400 responses of children with primary language disorder: intervention effects. 3 Aug 2009
• "Let me tell you about being a nurse". 30 Jul 2009
• Late decelerations and acid-base balance: metabolic acidosis explained in story form. 30 Jul 2009
• Negotiating complexities: An ethnographic study of intellectual disability and mental health nursing in New Zealand. 30 Jul 2009
• Studying narrative-in-action in women with chronic rheumatic conditions. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Narration'

Definition: The act, process, or an instance of narrating, i.e., telling a story. In the context of MEDICINE or ETHICS, narration includes relating the particular and the personal in the life story of an individual.

Descriptor UI: D033262

Alternative terms: Narration; Narrations; Narrative Medicine; Medicine, Narrative; Narrative Ethics; Ethics, Narrative;

Related Mesh Headings: Anecdotes as Topic;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.502; F01.145.209.459; L01.280.660; N05.715.360.300.480; N06.850.520.308.502;

History Note: 2003; for NARRATIVE ETHICS use ETHICS 1998-2002

Technical Notes: do not use for personal narrations