A study of the influence of military culture on military nurses when assessing post-operative pain
A study of the influence of military culture on military nurses when assessing post-operative pain
Stage 1, a self-completed questionnaire survey (n=266 nurses), found no statistically significant relationship between military nursing factors (service, rank, military experience) and their post-operative pain assessment, although some contradictory post-operative pain assessment attitudes were highlighted.
Stage 2 explored these contradictory attitudes using ethnomethological ethnographic interviews (n=29), identifying four themes within two narratives. The first, the civilian nursing narrative, describes military nurses believe that patients over or under rate their pain (Themes Two and Three), they challenge the cultural story through a collective story where they use their common-sense knowledge to account for (explain) these situations.
Military nurses also told a military narrative (Theme Four) regarding the assessment of military patients’ pain and associated military cultural influences, particularly stoical attitudes. However, these attitudes are being challenged as military nurses increasingly work within an NHS hospital culture. Newer military nurses more readily accept civilian nursing attitudes following a greater exposure to them during their nurse training, which is now predominantly undertaken in civilian establishments. In contrast, experienced military nurses are reluctant to relinquish their stoical military attitudes.
This thesis adds to the existing literature surrounding cultural attitudes influencing nurses’ post-operative pain assessment, but is distinctive as it is the first study to do so from a military perspective, thus contributing to the development of a unique body of knowledge on military nursing.
University of Southampton
Harper, Philip John
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Harper, Philip John
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Harper, Philip John
(2005)
A study of the influence of military culture on military nurses when assessing post-operative pain.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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Stage 1, a self-completed questionnaire survey (n=266 nurses), found no statistically significant relationship between military nursing factors (service, rank, military experience) and their post-operative pain assessment, although some contradictory post-operative pain assessment attitudes were highlighted.
Stage 2 explored these contradictory attitudes using ethnomethological ethnographic interviews (n=29), identifying four themes within two narratives. The first, the civilian nursing narrative, describes military nurses believe that patients over or under rate their pain (Themes Two and Three), they challenge the cultural story through a collective story where they use their common-sense knowledge to account for (explain) these situations.
Military nurses also told a military narrative (Theme Four) regarding the assessment of military patients’ pain and associated military cultural influences, particularly stoical attitudes. However, these attitudes are being challenged as military nurses increasingly work within an NHS hospital culture. Newer military nurses more readily accept civilian nursing attitudes following a greater exposure to them during their nurse training, which is now predominantly undertaken in civilian establishments. In contrast, experienced military nurses are reluctant to relinquish their stoical military attitudes.
This thesis adds to the existing literature surrounding cultural attitudes influencing nurses’ post-operative pain assessment, but is distinctive as it is the first study to do so from a military perspective, thus contributing to the development of a unique body of knowledge on military nursing.
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