Rediscovering the “Narrative” review

Thorne, Sally

doi:10.1111/nin.12257

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“…Amid decades-long debates about the unifying ontology of the nursing discipline, Bender recently proposed that the unique fundamental access point of nursing is relationality, “interdependent relations that constitute people, including, nurses, in their health/environment circumstance” ( Bender, 2018 , p. 6). She describes it as a “relation-sensing performance” in which “nurses create worlds where they can make a difference—where they can make things better” (p. 7).…”

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“…Good nursing practice in the context of this study involved going to extraordinary lengths to choreograph the best possible experience for patients and their family for the time that was left. Bender’s (2018) proposition that the unique access point of nursing is to create conditions that make a difference for patients was evident along this trajectory of care.…”

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Constructing Good Nursing Practice for Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

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Thorne

Schiller

et al. 2020

Global Qualitative Nursing Research

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Nurses play a central role in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada. However, we know little about nurses’ experiences with this new end-of-life option. The purpose of this study was to explore how nurses construct good nursing practice in the context of MAiD. This was a qualitative interview study using Interpretive Description. Fifty-nine nurses participated in semi-structured telephone interviews. Data were analyzed inductively. The findings illustrated the ways in which nurses constructed artful practice to humanize what was otherwise a medicalized event. Registered nurses and nurse practitioners described creating a person-centered MAiD process that included establishing relationship, planning meticulously, orchestrating the MAiD death, and supporting the family. Nurses in this study illustrated how a nursing gaze focused on relationality crosses the moral divides that characterize MAiD. These findings provide an in-depth look at what constitutes good nursing practice in MAiD that can support the development of best practices.

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Constructing Good Nursing Practice for Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

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et al. 2020

Global Qualitative Nursing Research

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“…Whilst NRs attempt to build on linked papers, the lack of data on novice mentoring and the common root from which they stem from hinders efforts to create a “coherent paradigm.” 38 In addition although use of Levac et al’s 113 adaptation of Arksey and O’Malley’s 114 methodological framework to conduct a systematic scoping review rather than “traditional” scoping reviews 115 was used to enhance transparency and reproducibility of the NR and use of broad search terms, the presence of papers drawn from a common stable raises concerns about inherent biases and the omission of critical papers. These factors stifle efforts to deepen understanding of a complex process 116 despite use of the Split Approach and involvement of expert teams. However, the expert team concurred on the narrative presented and believed that it would be useful for various parties interested in designing, assessing, supporting, and expanding novice mentoring programs.…”

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Enhancing Mentoring in Palliative Care: An Evidence Based Mentoring Framework

Krishna

Tan

Ong

et al. 2020

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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Background: Growing concerns over ethical issues in mentoring in medicine and surgery have hindered efforts to reinitiate mentoring for Palliative Care (PC) physicians following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Ranging from the misappropriation of mentee’s work to bullying, ethical issues in mentoring are attributed to poor understanding and structuring of mentoring programs, underlining the need for a consistent approach to mentoring practices. Methods: Given diverse practices across different settings and the employ of various methodologies, a novel approach to narrative reviews (NR)s is proposed to summarize, interpret, and critique prevailing data on novice mentoring. To overcome prevailing concerns surrounding the reproducibility and transparency of narrative reviews, the Systematic Evidenced Based Approach (SEBA) adopts a structured approach to searching and summarizing the included articles and employed concurrent content and thematic analysis that was overseen by a team of experts. Results: A total of 18 915 abstracts were reviewed, 62 full text articles evaluated and 41 articles included. Ten themes/categories were ascertained identified including Nature; Stakeholders; Relationship; Approach; Environment; Benefits; Barriers; Assessments; Theories and Definitions. Conclusion: By compiling and scrutinizing prevailing practice it is possible to appreciate the notion of the mentoring ecosystem which sees each mentee, mentor, and host organization brings with them their own microenvironment that contains their respective goals, abilities, and contextual considerations. Built around competency based mentoring stages, it is possible to advance a flexible yet consistent novice mentoring framework.

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“…Given the current situation in which we find the qualitative meta-synthesis universe, I encourage us to take a step back and ask ourselves why we do what we do, and on what basis we believe it matters. If we are guiding our students and colleagues toward systematic rather than narrative or critically integrative reviews in their literature explorations, let's fully understand what we are suggesting, and what may be the cost (Thorne, 2018). Possibly (until we find a way to stem the current tide) such products have a higher likelihood of getting published somewhere.…”

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On the Evolving World of What Constitutes Qualitative Synthesis

Thorne

2018

Qual Health Res

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As the body of available qualitatively derived knowledge expands, there is increasing temptation to capitalize on it to generate knowledge synthesis products. Concurrently, in the wake of an ever-expanding enthusiasm for evidencebased practice knowledge in health care, scholars are facing pressure to forgo the more narrative or interpretive form of literature review in favor of reviews that are positioned as explicitly systematic. This has created a context in which both new and seasoned scholars are, in increasing numbers, working with extant bodies of qualitative literature in ways that counter the very motivations that drove health researchers into qualitative methods in the first place. In this commentary, I trace the evolution of this trend, illustrating how a reasonable original intent has taken a misguided turn in the context of competing understandings and priorities in health care knowledge development. On this basis, I propose a strategic direction for this journal as a leader in what constitutes the meaningful application of qualitative research methodological approaches, including that which purports to represent synthesis of available knowledge, for the purposes of addressing the inherently complex challenges of the health field.

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Rediscovering the “Narrative” review

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Constructing Good Nursing Practice for Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

Constructing Good Nursing Practice for Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: An Interpretive Descriptive Study

Enhancing Mentoring in Palliative Care: An Evidence Based Mentoring Framework

On the Evolving World of What Constitutes Qualitative Synthesis

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