Title
Making sense of it: a neuro-interactional model of meaning emergence in critically ill ventilated patients
Publication Date
1996-05-01
UMMS Affiliation
Graduate School of Nursing
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Health Services Administration | Nursing | Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Abstract
Emphasis on meaning underpins a current thrust of knowledge development in nursing, especially in the client domain. Examination of meaning in the interactional context and through varying levels of consciousness has not been examined. Initially, an integrated model was developed deductively from philosophical, theoretical and research-oriented sources. This model was meant as a guide to begin examining how patients with varying levels of consciousness make sense of their intensive care unit experience. Over a 10-month period of fieldwork, this author observed patients twice daily through their intensive care unit stay to capture the nature and content of thinking processes. The resulting neuro-interactional model describes patients' thinking processes and scope of meaning as a function of levels of consciousness as well as factors which affect thinking and meaning. Theory, research and practice implications are presented.
DOI of Published Version
10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.01036.x
Source
J Adv Nurs. 1996 May;23(5):896-903.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of advanced nursing
Related Resources
PubMed ID
8732515
Repository Citation
Lusardi, Paula T. and Schwartz-Barcott, Donna, "Making sense of it: a neuro-interactional model of meaning emergence in critically ill ventilated patients" (1996). Graduate School of Nursing Publications and Presentations. 88.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsn_pp/88