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    Who's Listening? Experiences of Women with Breast Cancer in Communicating with Physicians (2001)
    Boston, MA, USA : Blackwell Science Inc
    The @breast journal 7 (2001), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1524-4741
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe communication behaviors and attitudes of physicians that were most important to women living with breast cancer. Two focus group sessions were conducted, 1 month apart, involving 15 women who were members of a community-based breast cancer support group in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Group dialogue was audiotaped, and notes were taken at each session by the coinvestigators, also members of the support group. Audiotapes, coinvestigators' written notes from the two focus group sessions, and the written homework assignments were used in the qualitative data analysis. Conceptual themes were identified and grouped to discern patterns within the data. The women were asked the following: (a) What were the most helpful things your doctor said or did at the time of your diagnosis? (b) What does a good intervention feel or look like? They were then asked to describe behaviors and attitudes they would like to influence in medical students who might later be communicating with women facing a diagnosis of breast cancer and to indicate which behaviors and attitudes they felt were most important. Women's positive experiences with physicians were characterized by communication based on active listening, awareness of the women's knowledge of their illness, honesty, and partnership. Physicians who showed interest in their patients as persons and who used touch to communicate caring were perceived as supportive communicators. Not surprisingly, there were similarities between the participants' positive experiences with their own physicians and the behaviors and attitudes desired in future physicians. Once again, “listening” was ranked as most important, followed by willingness to discern the individual patient's knowledge level.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1524-4741.2001.07614.x
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    Single Room Maternity Care and Client Satisfaction (2000)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Inc
    Birth 27 (2000), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1523-536X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Background: Single room maternity care is the provision of intrapartum and postpartum care in a single room. It promotes a philosophy of family centered care in which one nurse cares for the family consistently throughout the intrapartum and postpartum periods. At B.C. Women's Hospital, a tertiary level obstetric teaching hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, a seven-bed, single room maternity care unit was developed and opened as a demonstration project. As part of the evaluation of this unit, client satisfaction was compared between women enrolled in single room maternity care and those in a traditional setting. Method: The study group included 205 women who were admitted to the single room maternity care unit after meeting the low-risk criteria. Their responses on a satisfaction survey were compared with those of a historical comparison group of 221 women meeting the same eligibility criteria who were identified through chart audits 3 months before the single room maternity care unit was opened. A second, concurrent comparison group comprised 104 women who also met eligibility criteria. Results: Study group women were more satisfied than comparison groups in all areas evaluated, including provision of information and support, physical environment, nursing care, patient education, assistance with infant feeding, respect for privacy, and preparation for discharge. Conclusions: Single room maternity care was associated with a significant improvement in client satisfaction because of many factors, including the physical setting itself, avoidance of transfers, and improved continuity of nursing care.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-536x.2000.00235.x
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    Single Room Maternity Care: The Nursing Response (2001)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Inc
    Birth 28 (2001), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1523-536X
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Background: The introduction of single room maternity care in the 1990s necessitated a new approach to nursing education and practice. A focus on perinatal nursing requires competence across the spectrum of labor, delivery, postpartum and newborn care. We sought to evaluate the nursing response to this change by comparing satisfaction with the workplace environment among single room maternity care nurses before and after they worked in the setting and among nurses working in traditional birth settings. Methods: Six months before the opening of a pilot seven-bed single room maternity care unit, nurses who planned to work in the new unit completed a survey about their satisfaction with aspects of their work environment. Three months after the new unit opened the survey was repeated with this study group and also by a sample of nurses working in the delivery and postpartum areas. Results: Responses indicated that single room maternity care nurses before and after working in the unit were significantly more satisfied with the physical setting, their ability to respond to patients' needs, their opportunity for teaching families, the nursing practice environment, peer support, and their perceived level of competency. They rated their satisfaction significantly higher than that of their colleagues in the traditional delivery and postpartum settings. Conclusions: The positive transition to single room maternity care by obstetrical nurses was demonstrated by their improved overall satisfaction with the work environment. Evaluation of the nurses' responses to changes in health care delivery has important implications for justifying new clinical approaches and planning for future changes.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-536x.2001.00173.x
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    Resolving the Uncertainty of Preterm Symptoms: Women's Experiences With the Onset of Preterm Labor (2002)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of obstetric, gynecologic and neonatal nursing 31 (2002), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1552-6909
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Objective: To describe expectant women's experiences with the onset of preterm labor. Design: Qualitative, using grounded theory methods. Setting: Southwestern tertiary women's hospital. Participants: Thirty pregnant women who were less than 35 weeks gestation, had experienced preterm labor within the past 7 days, and had no previous experience with preterm labor. Data Source: Taped and transcribed interviews. Results: Themes that emerged from the interview data included the following: recognition and naming of sensations, a consistent pattern of attribution of symptoms, the threat or risk inferred by the attributed cause of the symptom pattern, the associated certainty or uncertainty about these attributions, the process of interpreting and verifying symptom meaning, and the decision to self-manage the symptoms or engage health care assistance. The core process of women experiencing the onset of preterm labor symptoms was identified as “resolving the uncertainty of preterm labor symptoms: recognizing and responding to the possibilities.” Conclusions: Preterm labor often is not within expectant women's consciousness. They may attribute the symptoms to nonthreatening causes, which results in delays in seeking care for preterm labor. Education about symptom patterns at the onset of preterm labor will increase the probability that women and their health care providers will recognize and interpret the early, subtle symptoms that herald the onset of preterm labor. Uncertainty in illness theory and attribution theory offer frameworks for understanding women's experiences with the onset of preterm labor.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1552-6909.2002.tb00024.x
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    Gender and modern Irish drama (2002)
    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    Drama and performance studies  
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    Keywords: Ireland, In literature. ; Yeats, W. B., (William Butler),, 1865-1939, Characters, Women. ; Yeats, W. B., (William Butler),, 1865-1939, Dramatic works. ; Body, Human, in literature. ; English drama, Irish authors, History and criticism. ; English drama, 20th century, History and criticism. ; Feminism and literature, Ireland, History, 20th century. ; Sex role in literature. ; Women and literature, Ireland, History, 20th century. ; Women in literature.
    Notes: Introduction: bodies and blood -- Body and soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the two Cathleens -- Under siege: blood, borders, and the body politic -- Excess of love: Padraig Pearse and the erotics of sacrifice -- The body of truth: sensationalism and sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy -- Misbirth of a nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State
    Pages: xi, 307 p.
    ISBN: 0-253-10973-6
    URL: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=92048
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