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Making sense of it: a neuro‐interactional model of meaning emergence in critically ill ventilated patients
Author(s) -
Lusardi Paula T,
SchwartzBarcott Donna
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.01036.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , consciousness , context (archaeology) , psychology , intensive care , intensive care unit , scope (computer science) , epistemology , medicine , psychotherapist , computer science , psychiatry , philosophy , intensive care medicine , paleontology , neuroscience , biology , programming language
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