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Leadership&Management • Issues &Trends
HowtoNurse: Relational Inquirywith Individualsand
Families inChangingHealthandHealthCareContexts
GwenethHartrickDoane, RN, PhD
978-1-4511-9026-7 • January2014 • Softbound • 7” x10” •480pp.
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 andwhat they later findout nursing
really is asyoungprofessionals.
NursingasRelational 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 theywill faceupongraduation thatwill transform theirnursing
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 inquiryapproachandhow it canbe implemented inpractice.
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, excellenceof 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
betweentheelementsaswellastherelevanceofthose interrelationships
in theexperientialmoment andalsoacting toward them.
Features
•
Real storiesandexamples, spanningnursingpractice, from
patients/families/nurses fromvaryinggeographic locales
,
instill an international perspective thatwill help students become
promotersof global health.These stories ground theabstract
concepts that comprise the relational inquiry theoretical approach
topractice, breakingdown the concepts into conversational stories
students caneasily relate toand learn toapply.
•
“Try ItOut”
featureboxes contain learningexercises tailored for
students toapply chapter content andbuild relational inquiry skills.
•
“ThisWeek inPractice”
is anend-of-chapter feature that
integrates ideas presented in the chapter andasks readers todraw
on their past andpresent experiences, values, andbeliefs.
Table of Contents
1.How toNurse:An Introduction to
Relational Inquiry inNursingPractice
2.UsingTheoretical Lenses toSupport
Relational Inquiry
3.NursingObligations andOntologic
Capacities:TheFiveCsSupporting
Relationship Inquiry
4.AllNursing isCultural and
Contextual
5.AllNursing is FamilyNursing
6.Waysof Knowing toSupport
Relational Inquiry
7.AllNursing isTheoretically Informed
8.AllNursing isRelational Practice
9. Relational InquiryStrategies
10.Nursing isCollaborative
11. Leadership inEveryMomentof
Practice