@article{ref1,
title="Mediating consolation with suicidal patients",
journal="Nursing ethics",
year="2007",
author="Gilje, F. and Talseth, Anne-Grethe",
volume="14",
number="4",
pages="546-557",
abstract="Psychiatric nurses frequently encounter suicidal patients. Caring for such patients often raises ethical questions and dilemmas. The research question for this study was: 'What understandings are revealed in texts about consolation and psychiatric nurses' responses to suicidal patients?' A Gadamerian approach guided re-interpretation of published texts. Through synthesizing four interpretive phases, a comprehensive interpretation emerged. This revealed being 'at home' with self, or an ethical way of being, as a hermeneutic understanding of a way to become ready to mediate consolation with suicidal patients. Trustworthiness was addressed by means of the qualities of auditability, credibility and confirmability. This re-interpretation adds to nursing knowledge, enhances understanding of previous research findings, provides pre-understanding for further research and reveals the value of hermeneutic inquiry in nursing. It also deepens understanding of a published model of consolation. These understandings may help to guide nurses who are struggling with suicidal patients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0969-7330",
doi="10.1177/0969733007077889",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733007077889"
}