Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain (International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series) - Softcover

Madjar, Irena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598742841 ISBN 13: 9781598742848

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This phenomenological study describes the lived experience of pain inflicted in the context of medically prescribed treatment, and it explores the meanings of such pain for patients who endured it and for nurses whose actions contributed to its generation. Thus, it presents a thematic description of the phenomenon of clinically inflicted pain. The dangers for both patients and nurses when clinically inflicted pain is ignored, overlooked, or treated with detachment are presented. The study also points the way toward nursing practice that is guided by thoughtfulness and sensitivity to patients1 lived experience and an awareness of the freedom and responsibility inherent in nursing actions, including those involved in inflicting and relieving pain. Questions are raised about nurses1 knowledge, attitudes, and actions in relation to clinically inflicted pain. The study highlights the need for nursing education and practice to consider the contribution of a phenomenological perspective to the understanding of the human experience of pain and the nursing role in its generation, prevention, and relief.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This phenomenological study investigates the lived experience of cancer and burn patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments.

About the Author:

Irena Madjar is professor of nursing at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1598742841
• ISBN 13: 9781598742848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254