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A narrative ethics of care. [PDF]

Health Care Anal, 2011
If ethics of care deals with the nature of relationships, attentiveness, and understanding particular others, narrativity ought to play a central part. Sometimes, caring simply amounts to working with narratives. In the article I claim that narrativity can even be said to be native to an ethics of care. Through an example, I demonstrate how a narrative
Paulsen JE.
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Ethics of the teaching profession as an ethics of care

Labor et Educatio, 2023
Teachers are among many educational entities. In this profession, it is worth paying special attention to its ethical dimension.
Dariusz Zając
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Implementation of a nurse-led overdose prevention site in a hospital setting: lessons learned from St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Objectives In May 2018, St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH) in Vancouver (Canada) opened an outdoor peer-led overdose prevention site (OPS) operated in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and RainCity Housing. At the end of 2020, the partnered OPS moved to a
Elizabeth Dogherty, Carlin Patterson, Marilou Gagnon, Scott Harrison, Jocelyn Chase, Jill Boerstler, Jennifer Gibson, Sam Gill, Seonaid Nolan, Andy Ryan   +9 more
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Aggressiveness of care in the last days of life in the emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Korea

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background High-quality end-of-life (EOL) care requires both comfort care and the maintenance of dignity. However, delivering EOL in the emergency department (ED) is often challenging.
Jung Sun Kim, Sun Young Lee, Min Sung Lee, Shin Hye Yoo, Jeongmi Shin, Wonho Choi, Yejin Kim, Hyung Sook Han, Jinui Hong, Bhumsuk Keam, Dae Seog Heo   +10 more
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Potential living kidney donors’ positive experiences of an information letter from healthcare: a descriptive qualitative study

BMC Nephrology, 2022
Background Patients who need a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) must often ask potential donors (PLDs) themselves. This is a difficult task and healthcare could unburden them by making this first contact, ensuring also that PLDs receive correct ...
Eva Lagging, Kjerstin Larsson, Jonas Wadström, Linda Gyllström Krekula, Annika Tibell   +4 more
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Prevalence and characteristics of older adults with a persistent death wish without severe illness: a large cross-sectional survey

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Background Some older persons develop a persistent death wish without being severely ill, often referred to as “completed life” or “tiredness of life”.
Iris D. Hartog, Margot L. Zomers, Ghislaine J. M. W. van Thiel, Carlo Leget, Alfred P. E. Sachs, Cuno S. P. M. Uiterwaal, Vera van den Berg, Els van Wijngaarden   +7 more
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Implementing standard antenatal care interventions: health system cost at primary health facilities in Tanzania

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021
Background Since 2002, Tanzania has been implementing the focused Antenatal Care (ANC) model that recommended four antenatal care visits. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) reintroduced the standard ANC model with more interventions including a
Amisa Tindamanyile Chamani, Amani Thomas Mori, Bjarne Robberstad   +2 more
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Challenging Standard Concepts of ‘Humane’ Care through Relational Auto-Ethnography

Social Inclusion, 2016
What is deemed ‘good’ or ‘humane’ care often seems to be underpinned by a standard ideal of an able-bodied, autonomous human being, which not only underlies those ‘social and professional structures within which narratives and decisions regarding various
Alistair Niemeijer, Merel Visse
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‘Foreigners’, ‘ethnic minorities’, and ‘non-Western allochtoons’: an analysis of the development of ‘ethnicity’ in health policy in the Netherlands from 1970 to 2015

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The Netherlands, because of the sustained and systematic attention it paid to migrant and minority health issues during the last quarter of the twentieth century, has been depicted as being progressive in its approach to healthcare for ...
Alana Helberg-Proctor, Agnes Meershoek, Anja Krumeich, Klasien Horstman   +3 more
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Using patients’ own knowledge of early sensations and symptoms to develop an interactive, individualized e-questionnaire to facilitate early diagnosis of lung cancer

BMC Cancer, 2021
Background One reason for the often late diagnosis of lung cancer (LC) may be that potentially-indicative sensations and symptoms are often diffuse, and may not be considered serious or urgent, making their interpretation complicated.
Adrian Levitsky, Britt-Marie Bernhardson, Ingela Henoch, Maria Olin, Karl Kölbeck, Nadja Rystedt, Carol Tishelman, Lars E. Eriksson   +7 more
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