Vera Caine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3793743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vera Caine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vera |
| FAMILY NAME | Caine |
| SIGNATURE | CAINE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 807 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Attending to experience in narrative care
Over the past years, attention has been drawn to how narrative ideas could be integrated in care practices. For many years, we have inquired into, challenged, and stretched the concept of narrative care. For us, narrative care is more than to acknowledge or listen to people's stories. We see care itself as an intrinsically narrative endeavor. We think of narrative care as an active and relational co-composition of experience - a way of making sen…
Insights Into Dialysis Initiation
Patients on dialysis develop unique relationships with their providers, fellow patients, and the broader healthcare system. This network of relationships is a well-established key factor influencing both their healthcare experience and mortality rates. Yet, despite ongoing efforts to improve these networks of relationships, health outcomes remain unfavorable for dialysis patients. Investigating the formation of these relationships through a socia…
Narrative Coherence and Relational Agency
Incarcerated populations in Canada face significant health and social challenges during transitions into and out of correctional facilities. These transitions around facilities pose disproportionate barriers to care for people living with HIV. Further research is crucial to comprehend these challenges and reimagine care concepts for people who experience structural marginalization. In this article, experiences of transitions into and out of Alber…
You Have Some Questions for Me?' considering Qualitative Interviewing
Interviewing, as a way of collecting research data, has emerged and been developed within the transition from modernist ideals to more postmodern perspectives about what constitutes knowledge. Interviewing practices range from standardized structured interviews to collect data in large-scale studies, to interviews that are more characteristic of a conversation that allow for a more expansive venture into an area of inquiry. While there are times …
Unable to Feed My Hungry Child”
Mothers' experiences of caring for children with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is largely unknown. With no treatment for PWS, parents undertake (extra)ordinary care practices to keep children safe from overeating and self harm. Knowledge of these care practices could lead to effective interventions. Narrative inquiry was used to study everyday experience with Canadian mothers. Participants cared for a child 3 to 17 years old who had hyperphagia. Pa…
Mothering a Child With Complexity and Rarity
Daily experiences of mothers caring for children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are largely unknown and unvoiced. Knowledge of PWS has generally focused on pathology of the disorder. This emphasis overlooks the challenging moments of everyday life caring for children with PWS. Storied accounts of mothers caring for children with PWS offer expanded narratives to medicalized descriptions of experience. An understanding of everyday challenges in m…
Selecting Approaches for Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is a commonly used research methodology in the social and human sciences. In this paper, we highlight two different approaches to discourse analysis and discuss critical elements of each approach. As researchers new to discourse analysis, two Masters of Nursing students reflect on the process of making careful choices when deciding on using an approach developed by Fairclough or Foucault. The decision making must consider the s…
The Relationship Between Critical Social Theory and Interpretive Description in Nursing Research
This paper is an examination of the methodological and theoretical perspectives of a study with an inquiry focus on the experiences and perspectives of staff who worked at an injectable opiate assisted (iOAT) clinic. Twenty-two staff members, including nurses, social workers, and peer support workers, were interviewed. The goal of the study was to uncover how the clinic staff provided care to the clients who attend the clinic, their perspectives …
Flawed reports can harm
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Narrative Inquiry
Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots introduces key ideas of narrative inquiry and is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people’s experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists i…
Considering Silences in Narrative Inquiry
Through coming alongside a Sami family, we open spaces to contemplate multiple forms of silence. We argue that rather than the antithesis to narrative, silence is an integral part of narrative inquiry. As narrative inquirers we need to be wakeful to what is told and also untold, often simultaneously. We believe that narrative inquiry is not necessarily about breaking silences, but it is also about honoring silences, as well as the practice of sil…
The necessity of a relational ethics alongside Noddings' ethics of care in narrative inquiry
Amidst a winter snow storm we drove slowly and carefully to our research site. Leaving much earlier than usual we wanted to be there to greet the indigenous youth who we had come to know in the process of inquiring into their ongoing identity making. We came to know them over several months in a junior high school arts club and had developed relationships with them that were marked by care. In attending to care, Noddings (1984) offered us a way t…
Recognizing the Body as Being Political
People who are homeless inhabit public spaces; their bodies appear. Yet, they are not often seen as individuals with remarkable sufferings caused by invisibility in society. While thinking alongside the ideas elaborated by the German Jewish political theorist and philosopher, Hannah Arendt, I consider the possibility of a political act called forth by attending to the body of people who are homeless. By drawing on Arendt's deliberations on human …
The Relational Ethics of Narrative Inquiry
Teaching HIV-specific content for pre-licensure nursing and health professions students
Persistent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rates remain a challenge, particularly because health care providers (HCP) are not fully prepared to engage in HIV care. This hesitancy to engage creates access to care barriers for people living with HIV (PLWH). We conducted a systematic review to identify educational interventions focused on developing HIV competencies in higher education across health science disciplines. We searched dat…
Experiences of Head and Neck Cancer Patients in Middle Adulthood
The head and neck cancer (HNC) rate is rising among the middle-aged adult population. This trend has been attributed primarily to human papillomavirus exposure. An HNC diagnosis and its complex treatments may trigger life-changing physical, emotional, and social consequences. An interpretive descriptive study was conducted to describe the experiences of a purposive sample of 10 middle-aged adults who had experienced HNC. Two main themes were iden…
Mothers' Experiences of Supporting Adolescent Children Through Long-Term Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
Substance use disorder is a complex phenomenon that affects people in many different contexts. Adolescent substance abuse within families is a particular problem that merits ongoing study. In particular, the experiences of mothers in this context are not fully explored. In this narrative inquiry study, we explored the experiences of four mothers parenting children through long-term substance abuse treatment. Participants were recruited from a fam…
The Encounters and Challenges of Ethnography as a Methodology in Health Research
Medical anthropology has existed since the early 1960s, and the encounters of ethnography in health research are recent. We will trace key historical markers and highlight several ethnographic studies in health research in this article. In particular, we are interested how aspects of classic ethnographic work have been taken up, and how the use has changed over time, as ethnographies, such as focused ethnographies and other forms of ethnography, …
A Return to Methodological Commitment
In the 25 years since narrative inquiry emerged as a social science research methodology, it has been rapidly taken up in the social sciences. In what is sometimes called a “narrative revolution,” researchers with diverse understandings have co-opted the concept of narrative inquiry and used narrative inquiry or narrative research to name their methodology. In this paper, we lay out more clearly the ontological and epistemological commitments tha…
Narrative Inquiry as Pedagogy in Education
Editors' Introduction - Special Issue
Narrative Beginnings
Drawing on the life stories of Debra, an Aboriginal woman living with HIV, I reflect on the feeling of (dis)placement from a geographic landscape and cultural heritage that both Debra and I experienced, although in different ways. I explore how place is inscribed onto and into our bodies and how home can be understood as embodied. In this way I explore place as geographic position of home and as ontological. In the living out of her stories, Debr…
Narrative Inquiry
Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots introduces key ideas of narrative inquiry and is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people’s experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists i…
The Encounters and Challenges of Ethnography as a Methodology in Health Research
Medical anthropology has existed since the early 1960s, and the encounters of ethnography in health research are recent. We will trace key historical markers and highlight several ethnographic studies in health research in this article. In particular, we are interested how aspects of classic ethnographic work have been taken up, and how the use has changed over time, as ethnographies, such as focused ethnographies and other forms of ethnography, …
The necessity of a relational ethics alongside Noddings' ethics of care in narrative inquiry
Amidst a winter snow storm we drove slowly and carefully to our research site. Leaving much earlier than usual we wanted to be there to greet the indigenous youth who we had come to know in the process of inquiring into their ongoing identity making. We came to know them over several months in a junior high school arts club and had developed relationships with them that were marked by care. In attending to care, Noddings (1984) offered us a way t…
Mothers' Experiences of Supporting Adolescent Children Through Long-Term Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
Substance use disorder is a complex phenomenon that affects people in many different contexts. Adolescent substance abuse within families is a particular problem that merits ongoing study. In particular, the experiences of mothers in this context are not fully explored. In this narrative inquiry study, we explored the experiences of four mothers parenting children through long-term substance abuse treatment. Participants were recruited from a fam…
Narrative Beginnings
Drawing on the life stories of Debra, an Aboriginal woman living with HIV, I reflect on the feeling of (dis)placement from a geographic landscape and cultural heritage that both Debra and I experienced, although in different ways. I explore how place is inscribed onto and into our bodies and how home can be understood as embodied. In this way I explore place as geographic position of home and as ontological. In the living out of her stories, Debr…
You Have Some Questions for Me?' considering Qualitative Interviewing
Interviewing, as a way of collecting research data, has emerged and been developed within the transition from modernist ideals to more postmodern perspectives about what constitutes knowledge. Interviewing practices range from standardized structured interviews to collect data in large-scale studies, to interviews that are more characteristic of a conversation that allow for a more expansive venture into an area of inquiry. While there are times …
Flawed reports can harm
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Recognizing the Body as Being Political
People who are homeless inhabit public spaces; their bodies appear. Yet, they are not often seen as individuals with remarkable sufferings caused by invisibility in society. While thinking alongside the ideas elaborated by the German Jewish political theorist and philosopher, Hannah Arendt, I consider the possibility of a political act called forth by attending to the body of people who are homeless. By drawing on Arendt's deliberations on human …
Narrative Beginnings
Drawing on the life stories of Debra, an Aboriginal woman living with HIV, I reflect on the feeling of (dis)placement from a geographic landscape and cultural heritage that both Debra and I experienced, although in different ways. I explore how place is inscribed onto and into our bodies and how home can be understood as embodied. In this way I explore place as geographic position of home and as ontological. In the living out of her stories, Debr…
Editors' Introduction - Special Issue
A Return to Methodological Commitment
In the 25 years since narrative inquiry emerged as a social science research methodology, it has been rapidly taken up in the social sciences. In what is sometimes called a “narrative revolution,” researchers with diverse understandings have co-opted the concept of narrative inquiry and used narrative inquiry or narrative research to name their methodology. In this paper, we lay out more clearly the ontological and epistemological commitments tha…
Narrative Inquiry as Pedagogy in Education
The Encounters and Challenges of Ethnography as a Methodology in Health Research
Medical anthropology has existed since the early 1960s, and the encounters of ethnography in health research are recent. We will trace key historical markers and highlight several ethnographic studies in health research in this article. In particular, we are interested how aspects of classic ethnographic work have been taken up, and how the use has changed over time, as ethnographies, such as focused ethnographies and other forms of ethnography, …
The Relational Ethics of Narrative Inquiry
Teaching HIV-specific content for pre-licensure nursing and health professions students
Persistent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rates remain a challenge, particularly because health care providers (HCP) are not fully prepared to engage in HIV care. This hesitancy to engage creates access to care barriers for people living with HIV (PLWH). We conducted a systematic review to identify educational interventions focused on developing HIV competencies in higher education across health science disciplines. We searched dat…
Experiences of Head and Neck Cancer Patients in Middle Adulthood
The head and neck cancer (HNC) rate is rising among the middle-aged adult population. This trend has been attributed primarily to human papillomavirus exposure. An HNC diagnosis and its complex treatments may trigger life-changing physical, emotional, and social consequences. An interpretive descriptive study was conducted to describe the experiences of a purposive sample of 10 middle-aged adults who had experienced HNC. Two main themes were iden…
Mothers' Experiences of Supporting Adolescent Children Through Long-Term Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
Substance use disorder is a complex phenomenon that affects people in many different contexts. Adolescent substance abuse within families is a particular problem that merits ongoing study. In particular, the experiences of mothers in this context are not fully explored. In this narrative inquiry study, we explored the experiences of four mothers parenting children through long-term substance abuse treatment. Participants were recruited from a fam…
Recognizing the Body as Being Political
People who are homeless inhabit public spaces; their bodies appear. Yet, they are not often seen as individuals with remarkable sufferings caused by invisibility in society. While thinking alongside the ideas elaborated by the German Jewish political theorist and philosopher, Hannah Arendt, I consider the possibility of a political act called forth by attending to the body of people who are homeless. By drawing on Arendt's deliberations on human …
The necessity of a relational ethics alongside Noddings' ethics of care in narrative inquiry
Amidst a winter snow storm we drove slowly and carefully to our research site. Leaving much earlier than usual we wanted to be there to greet the indigenous youth who we had come to know in the process of inquiring into their ongoing identity making. We came to know them over several months in a junior high school arts club and had developed relationships with them that were marked by care. In attending to care, Noddings (1984) offered us a way t…
Considering Silences in Narrative Inquiry
Through coming alongside a Sami family, we open spaces to contemplate multiple forms of silence. We argue that rather than the antithesis to narrative, silence is an integral part of narrative inquiry. As narrative inquirers we need to be wakeful to what is told and also untold, often simultaneously. We believe that narrative inquiry is not necessarily about breaking silences, but it is also about honoring silences, as well as the practice of sil…
Narrative Inquiry
Narrative Inquiry: Philosophical Roots introduces key ideas of narrative inquiry and is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people’s experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists i…
The Relationship Between Critical Social Theory and Interpretive Description in Nursing Research
This paper is an examination of the methodological and theoretical perspectives of a study with an inquiry focus on the experiences and perspectives of staff who worked at an injectable opiate assisted (iOAT) clinic. Twenty-two staff members, including nurses, social workers, and peer support workers, were interviewed. The goal of the study was to uncover how the clinic staff provided care to the clients who attend the clinic, their perspectives …
Flawed reports can harm
Supervised consumption services have been scaled up within Canada and internationally as an ethical imperative in the context of a public health emergency. A large body of peer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that these services prevent poisoning deaths, reduce infectious disease transmission risk behaviour, and facilitate clients' connections to other health and social services. In 2019, the Alberta government commissioned a review of the socioec…
Unable to Feed My Hungry Child”
Mothers' experiences of caring for children with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is largely unknown. With no treatment for PWS, parents undertake (extra)ordinary care practices to keep children safe from overeating and self harm. Knowledge of these care practices could lead to effective interventions. Narrative inquiry was used to study everyday experience with Canadian mothers. Participants cared for a child 3 to 17 years old who had hyperphagia. Pa…
Mothering a Child With Complexity and Rarity
Daily experiences of mothers caring for children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are largely unknown and unvoiced. Knowledge of PWS has generally focused on pathology of the disorder. This emphasis overlooks the challenging moments of everyday life caring for children with PWS. Storied accounts of mothers caring for children with PWS offer expanded narratives to medicalized descriptions of experience. An understanding of everyday challenges in m…
Selecting Approaches for Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is a commonly used research methodology in the social and human sciences. In this paper, we highlight two different approaches to discourse analysis and discuss critical elements of each approach. As researchers new to discourse analysis, two Masters of Nursing students reflect on the process of making careful choices when deciding on using an approach developed by Fairclough or Foucault. The decision making must consider the s…
Insights Into Dialysis Initiation
Patients on dialysis develop unique relationships with their providers, fellow patients, and the broader healthcare system. This network of relationships is a well-established key factor influencing both their healthcare experience and mortality rates. Yet, despite ongoing efforts to improve these networks of relationships, health outcomes remain unfavorable for dialysis patients. Investigating the formation of these relationships through a socia…
Narrative Coherence and Relational Agency
Incarcerated populations in Canada face significant health and social challenges during transitions into and out of correctional facilities. These transitions around facilities pose disproportionate barriers to care for people living with HIV. Further research is crucial to comprehend these challenges and reimagine care concepts for people who experience structural marginalization. In this article, experiences of transitions into and out of Alber…
You Have Some Questions for Me?' considering Qualitative Interviewing
Interviewing, as a way of collecting research data, has emerged and been developed within the transition from modernist ideals to more postmodern perspectives about what constitutes knowledge. Interviewing practices range from standardized structured interviews to collect data in large-scale studies, to interviews that are more characteristic of a conversation that allow for a more expansive venture into an area of inquiry. While there are times …
Attending to experience in narrative care
Over the past years, attention has been drawn to how narrative ideas could be integrated in care practices. For many years, we have inquired into, challenged, and stretched the concept of narrative care. For us, narrative care is more than to acknowledge or listen to people's stories. We see care itself as an intrinsically narrative endeavor. We think of narrative care as an active and relational co-composition of experience - a way of making sen…
Sociology (14 works) · Narrative (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Narrative inquiry (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (4 works)