
William CodyDePaul University · School of Nursing
William Cody
PhD in Nursing
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The dialogue for this column is a summary of a dialogue among two preeminent nursing scholars and myself that took place "live" at the 40(th) Meeting of the American Academy of Nursing, focused on transforming healthcare. The dialogue was recorded and transcribed verbatim. In editing the dialogue I tried to leave it conversational which was the nat...
Dr. Beth Arrigo received her training in psychology, culminating in a PhD, from Duquesne University Arrigo is a clinical psychologist in private practice and an Instructor of Psychology at Central Piedmont Community College. She practices from an existential-phenomenological perspective grounded in human experience and presence while also using an...
Paternalistic practices, wherein providers confer a treatment or service upon a person or persons without their consent, ostensibly by reason of their limited autonomy or diminished capacity, are widespread in healthcare and in societies around the world. In the United States, paternalism in health and human services is widespread and probably incr...
Better ways of understanding and working with human diversity are needed in the healthcare and human service disciplines. Nursing, as the discipline that cares for whole persons throughout their lives and meets people where they are, is ideally suited to provide leadership to this effort. In this column, the author explores human diversity by expli...
For decades, critical thinking has been widely regarded as a concept and process of central importance in the practice of nurses and in their education. Numerous nursing textbooks heavily emphasize the development of critical thinking skills in students. The attention given to critical thinking in nursing parallels a reform movement that has had an...
Lyricism is a quality of discourse expressing intensely personal feeling or emotion. It is historically associated with romanticism, which involves the imagination and emotions, the use of autobiographical material, the exaltation of a common humanity, and an appreciation of nature. The language of a science conveys the meaning, significance, and u...
The human science tradition is rooted in human freedom and meaning and oriented toward narrative and dialogical methods. In the past 10 years, human science nursing has grown but the opposition has also increased. Whereas other health disciplines are turning to the study of lived experience, nursing on the whole may be turning away. This article up...
This article questions traditional boundaries between nursing art and nursing science and explores how nurses build knowledge and truth. A brief overview of familiar notions about nursing art is followed by questions that are meant to deepen understanding about nursing and the knowledge required for a discipline. Authors describe understanding as a...
Parse's research method was used to investigate the lived experience of grieving for 10 persons self-identified as HIV-positive injection drug users. These individuals compose an understudied and poorly understood population, and their grief experiences have rarely been documented. The losses grieved by persons living with HIV infection include the...
Using a descriptive evaluation research method, this study evaluated Parse's theory of human becoming in practice in the psychiatric setting. A pre- mid- post-implementation design served to generate qualitative data from nurses, patients, unit nurse managers, hospital nurse supervisors, and nurse documentation that illuminated changes in the quali...
This study examined the effects of a multidisciplinary, multi-media college course, The HIV Pandemic and AIDS , on the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of students. A quasiexperimental design was implemented using pre- and post-questionnaires administered to students enrolled in the course and to two control groups ( N= 131) similar in age, gend...
Parse's research method was used to study the meaning of grieving for families living with AIDS. In videotaped dialogues, diverse families living with AIDS described their experiences of grieving in relation to death and other losses. Narratives of the grieving experiences of each family were constructed. Through the process of extraction-synthesis...
Nursing has been viewed as a service for people wherever they may be--a service, grounded in scientific knowledge, that transcends setting. Yet nursing education has been overwhelmed by hospital institutions for the past 50 years, its attention diverted to medical entities and institutional trends, with fragmentation and depersonalization of genera...
Nursing has been viewed as a service for people wherever they may be-a service, grounded in scientific knowledge, that transcends setting. Yet nursing education has been overwhelmed by hospital institutions for the past 50 years, its attention diverted to medical entities and institutional trends, with fragmentation and depersonalization of general...
Care of the homeless in small out-patient clinic settings presents unique challenges in health care documentation. The transitory and infrequent episodic nature of client contact, as well as the inherent inefficiencies of the traditional paper chart, tend to minimize the collection of useful data for analyzing trends and patterns to identify and me...
Increasingly philosophers and scientists have affirmed that all knowledge is theory-laden and that methods are theory-driven. These assertions raise important questions related to the role of theory in qualitative research. There are scholars who propose that qualitative research can enhance understanding and expand theoretical knowledge from a dis...
If nursing practice is the performing art of the science of nursing, then practice is guided by nursing theory and cannot be considered separately from it. Nursing theory based practice is the cutting edge of the discipline. Practice methods reflect the beliefs and values of the theories from which they evolve. Nurses' values and beliefs about huma...
This article examines the meaning of human science in relation to extant nursing knowledge. The origins of the human science tradition are traced to the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, who challenged the dominance of the positivist perspective for generating knowledge of the human lifeworld. Specific ontological and epistemological criteria for human...
The purpose of this study was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of grieving a personal loss using Parse's research methodology. The nursing perspective for this study is that of Parse's theory of nursing. Through dialogical engagement with the researcher, four participants described their experiences of grieving a personal loss. The...