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A hermeneutic textual analysis of suffering and caring in the peri‐operative context
Author(s) -
Von Post Iréne,
Eriksson Katie
Publication year - 1999
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.1365-2648.1999.01182.x
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , reading (process) , context (archaeology) , hermeneutics , psychology , hermeneutic phenomenology , linguistics , nursing , epistemology , medicine , lived experience , philosophy , psychotherapist , history , archaeology
A hermeneutic textual analysis of suffering and caring in the perioperative context Hermeneutic text interpretation is discussed in this paper as a possible way of releasing nurses’ knowledge, in order to develop a deeper understanding of professional caring. The text is a nurse’s story, which has been gathered by means of the critical incident technique. The intention is to elicit the knowledge of professional caring in the stories and the language of caring science, which is concealed in a nurse’s reality. Hermeneutic text interpretation through reading a text and having a dialogue with the nurse’s reality will give a voice and a language to silent knowledge.