[NPInfo] Please translate

[Eric Doerfler]

You know, most professions in the human sciences write this way. I enclose,
for your amusement, a Calvin & Hobbes.

R. Eric Doerfler, CRNP, PhD(c), CCH
Instructor Of Nursing
RN-BS Program Coordinator
Penn State University, Capital Campus
777 W. Middletown Pike, Middletown PA 17057
717-948-6513 red1012 at psu.edu
 

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Of Diana Galler
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Please translate

Dave--
  See, in a nutshell, this is probably the main difference between NPs and
PAs... If you were a NP you'd be used to this ridiculous nonsensical
nurse-speak gobbly-gook and be sitting at your desk nodding your head in
total amazement at the shear intellectual impact this study will have on the
nursing profession specifically and world-wide health care systems in
general. I have a funny feeling I must really be a PA at heart as I sat here
for the longest time reading and rereading this abstract and finally had to
break it down and study it each single word at a time. I appreciate
Stephanie's translation as I'm embarrassed to admit I don't think I had any
clue that's what this was all about <G>.
Dena Galler
   
  
Stephanie Walker <stephanie2u at optonline.net> wrote:
  I think all it's saying is that in the English NHS, they've introduced a
number of advanced practice roles for nursing, in both the hospital and
community healthcare settings. At this point, there is no clear agreement
about the scope of practice of these advanced practice nurses. There has
been some study of the impact of advanced practice nurses in hospitals, and
this article is focusing on advanced practice nurses in community roles.

I get your point, though--there's no reason they can't use clear English in
their abstract. There's no need to be so convoluted. It's only a turn-off.

Stephanie

On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:30 PM, David Mittman wrote:

> Exploring new advanced practice roles in community nursing: a critique
> Authors: Aranda, Kay1; Jones, Andrea2
> Source: Nursing Inquiry, Volume 15, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 3-10(8)
>
>
> Abstract:
> ARANDA K. Nursing Inquiry 2008; 15: 3-10
>
> Exploring new advanced practice roles in community nursing: a critique
>
> Attempts to `modernize' the English National Health Service (NHS) have 
> included significant workforce re-design, including the development of 
> new, advanced roles in nursing. There is a wealth of evidence 
> documenting and evaluating such roles in hospital and, to a lesser 
> extent, in community settings. This paper builds on this work, drawing 
> on recent post structural and sociological analyzes to theorize these 
> roles, locating them within broader social and cultural changes taking 
> place in healthcare and exploring how understandings of new roles in 
> community nursing are in the process of being constructed. Building on 
> a literature review, the paper draws out what an analysis of new 
> advanced nursing roles in the community reveals about competing 
> conceptualizations of the nursing mandate, the ambivalence and 
> ambiguity that practitioners experience in shaping `new' identities 
> (the shaping of subjectivities), and the often implicit ideological 
> positions that underpin such developments.
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