Kath M Melia
Biographic Data
| ID | 257078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kath M Melia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kath M |
| FAMILY NAME | Melia |
| SIGNATURE | MELIA K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical moments-death and dying in intensive care
Ethical issues and the importance of consensus for the intensive care team
Clinical actions and financial constraints
This paper is concerned with the nature of rationing in intensive care. It reports a study of three intensive care units (ICUs) where resources were limited. We describe two conceptualisations of rationing: hard rationing, where there are absolute physical or financial constraints in place and soft rationing, in which clinicians and clinical managers, key actors in the organisation, can relax or remove apparently binding constraints. This paper d…
Rediscovering Glaser
This article seeks to shed some light on the difference of opinion that has developed between the cooriginators of the grounded theory approach to qualitative data analysis. The author has worked with grounded theory and has followed the developments in the methods books written independently by Glaser and Strauss since the publication of The Discovery of Grounded Theory in 1967. What had to date appeared to be an ongoing process of refinement of…
The illness experience-Dimensions of suffering
Occupational stress in a caring profession
Student nurses' construction of occupational socialisation1
This paper examines the occupational socialisation of British nurses. It uses Bucher and Strauss's notion of segmentation and considers two major segments within nursing: the education segment which, through the colleges of nursing, promotes a 'professional' version of nursing, and the service segment which is concerned with getting nursing work done. Students' accounts of their training were obtained by means of 40 informal interviews. On the ba…
Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics (Book)
Ethical issues and the importance of consensus for the intensive care team
Student nurses' construction of occupational socialisation1
This paper examines the occupational socialisation of British nurses. It uses Bucher and Strauss's notion of segmentation and considers two major segments within nursing: the education segment which, through the colleges of nursing, promotes a 'professional' version of nursing, and the service segment which is concerned with getting nursing work done. Students' accounts of their training were obtained by means of 40 informal interviews. On the ba…
Clinical actions and financial constraints
This paper is concerned with the nature of rationing in intensive care. It reports a study of three intensive care units (ICUs) where resources were limited. We describe two conceptualisations of rationing: hard rationing, where there are absolute physical or financial constraints in place and soft rationing, in which clinicians and clinical managers, key actors in the organisation, can relax or remove apparently binding constraints. This paper d…
The illness experience-Dimensions of suffering
Occupational stress in a caring profession
Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics (Book)
Student nurses' construction of occupational socialisation1
This paper examines the occupational socialisation of British nurses. It uses Bucher and Strauss's notion of segmentation and considers two major segments within nursing: the education segment which, through the colleges of nursing, promotes a 'professional' version of nursing, and the service segment which is concerned with getting nursing work done. Students' accounts of their training were obtained by means of 40 informal interviews. On the ba…
Occupational stress in a caring profession
The illness experience-Dimensions of suffering
Rediscovering Glaser
This article seeks to shed some light on the difference of opinion that has developed between the cooriginators of the grounded theory approach to qualitative data analysis. The author has worked with grounded theory and has followed the developments in the methods books written independently by Glaser and Strauss since the publication of The Discovery of Grounded Theory in 1967. What had to date appeared to be an ongoing process of refinement of…
Ethical issues and the importance of consensus for the intensive care team
Clinical actions and financial constraints
This paper is concerned with the nature of rationing in intensive care. It reports a study of three intensive care units (ICUs) where resources were limited. We describe two conceptualisations of rationing: hard rationing, where there are absolute physical or financial constraints in place and soft rationing, in which clinicians and clinical managers, key actors in the organisation, can relax or remove apparently binding constraints. This paper d…
Critical moments-death and dying in intensive care
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Intensive care (2 works) · Intensive care medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)