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Leadership & Management • Issues & Trends
How to Nurse: Relational Inquiry with Individuals and
Families in Changing Health and Health Care Contexts
Gweneth Hartrick Doane, RN, PhD
978-1-4511-9026-7 • January 2014 • Softbound • 7” x 10” • 480 pp.
At the heart of nursing education is the need to prepare students to
be safe, competent, ethical providers who are capable of providing
high-quality care within the complexities of the ever-evolving North
American health care settings. Research shows a gap exists between
what nursing students are taught and what they later find out nursing
really is as young professionals.
Nursing as Relational Inquiry
is a groundbreaking text that explicitly
acknowledges workplace realities and then offers students a
theoretically sound, research-informed way of navigating within the
realities they will face upon graduation that will transform their nursing
practice called relational inquiry.
By highlighting scenarios from both acute and community-based
settings throughout all chapters, the authors show the link of their
relational inquiry approach and how it can be implemented in practice.
What is Relational Inquiry?
Relational inquiry involves being an inquirer and enacting nursing as
an inquiry process. As an inquirer, nurses enter each nursing situation
inquiring into the relational experience of people (including oneself),
contexts, knowledge, meaningful purposes, excellence of practices and
effectiveness of outcomes (Hartrick Doane & Varcoe, 2008). Like a
scientific inquiry, inquiry-based nursing practice involves being in that
in-between relational space of knowing/not knowing, being curious,
looking for what seems significant, examining the interrelatedness
betweenthe elements aswell asthe relevanceofthose interrelationships
in the experiential moment and also acting toward them.
Features
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Real stories and examples, spanning nursing practice, from
patients/families/nurses from varying geographic locales
,
instill an international perspective that will help students become
promoters of global health. These stories ground the abstract
concepts that comprise the relational inquiry theoretical approach
to practice, breaking down the concepts into conversational stories
students can easily relate to and learn to apply.
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“Try It Out”
feature boxes contain learning exercises tailored for
students to apply chapter content and build relational inquiry skills.
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“This Week in Practice”
is an end-of-chapter feature that
integrates ideas presented in the chapter and asks readers to draw
on their past and present experiences, values, and beliefs.
Table of Contents
1. How to Nurse: An Introduction to
Relational Inquiry in Nursing Practice
2. Using Theoretical Lenses to Support
Relational Inquiry
3. Nursing Obligations and Ontologic
Capacities: The Five Cs Supporting
Relationship Inquiry
4. All Nursing is Cultural and
Contextual
5. All Nursing is Family Nursing
6. Ways of Knowing to Support
Relational Inquiry
7. All Nursing is Theoretically Informed
8. All Nursing is Relational Practice
9. Relational Inquiry Strategies
10. Nursing is Collaborative
11. Leadership in Every Moment of
Practice