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Home-based nursing: an endless journey.

Stina Oresland¹, Sylvia Määttä, Astrid Norberg

¹Umeå University, Sweden. stina.oresland@hibu.no

|May 12, 2011

Summary

Home-based nursing care is viewed as an endless journey, highlighting the need for nurses

Area of Science:

Nursing
Sociology
Linguistics

Background:

Home-based nursing care involves complex ethical considerations.
Understanding nurses' lived experiences is crucial for ethical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore metaphors used by nurses in home-based nursing care.
To uncover underlying values and norms within these metaphors.

Main Methods:

Qualitative study involving ten interviews.
Metaphor analysis applied to interpret linguistic expressions.
Conceptual metaphor theory used for cross-domain mapping.

Main Results:

The conceptual metaphor 'home-based nursing care is an endless journey' emerged.

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This metaphor reveals constant motion and the need for ethical maturity.

Two key entailments were identified from the metaphor analysis.

Conclusions:

Metaphors offer insight into nurses' ethical experiences in home care.
Further theoretical development is needed to support nurses' articulation of ethical issues.