TITLE:
Qualitative Research and Narrative Sources in the Context of Critical and Renal Cares
AUTHORS:
José Siles-González, Carmen Solano-Ruiz
KEYWORDS:
Nursing, Narrative Anthropology of Care, Qualitative Research, Critical and Renal Cares
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.4 No.6,
May
14,
2014
ABSTRACT: The objective of this study is to clarify the relevance of qualitative
research in the context of critical care and renal dialysis requires using
narrative sources. Also specific objectives are to identify the phases or
cultural moments that are distinguished in these processes. Research Question:
How can the narrative materials contribute to the study of the processes of
critical care and/or qualitative research in nephrology? Method and Sources:
There have been studies focusing on the narrative of patients who have written
their experiences building a literature experience ill (Siles et al., 1997, 1999, 2000). Sources have
been used to extract testimony retrospective autobiographies written by people
who have experienced the experiences of different diseases (Allué, 1996, 1997,
Zorn, 1991, Gilbert, 1993; Comas, 2009; Gracia Armendáriz, 2010; Sampedro, 1996,
Sacks, 2010). The analysis was developed by categorizing units of meaning,
meaning families and networks. To identify the cultural moments we have
followed the criteria established by Siles and Solano (2009): Multiculturalism,
interculturalism and transculturalism. To identify rites of passage and
liminality states have followed the principles outlined by Van Gennep (2013)
and Turner (1990, 2008). Results: We identified cultural moments and
characteristic states of liminality in critical care and kidney. Conclusions:
narrative sources are effective for analyzing the meanings and experiences of
patients in critical care and nephrology tool.