Women's experiences of heart surgery recovery: a poetical dissemination

In this article, I provide a review of the empirical literature on women's experiences of recovery from heart surgery. I suggest that recovery is gendered in that women's experiences interface with the spaces and places that women inhabit. As a result, it is important for nurses to consider care from an interpretive framework. Recognizing the need to tailor research dissemination to the subject matter at hand (peoples' experiences) and the research methodology most appropriate to inquire into peoples' experiences (qualitative), I employ an unconventional method of research dissemination in the literary form of poetry. The type of evidence that emerges within qualitative research demands we take a critical look at how we disseminate knowledge. Poetical dissemination of research may engage nurses on a different level of thinking and invite nurses to reconceptualize their practice based on the evidence.