Stepping Across the Line
Information Sharing, Truth Telling, and the Role of the Personal Carer in the Australian Nursing Home
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5454845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony G Tuckett (The University of Queensland), ANTHONY TUCKETT (0000-0002-7578-4271, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489-500 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732306298262 |
| PMID | 17416702 |
| OpenAlex | W2134009840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 48 |
The author draws on an Australian study using multiple qualitative methods to investigate truth telling in aged care. Thematic analysis of data from five nursing homes involving 23 personal care assistants revealed participants' role understanding as influencing their perceptions about truth telling in practice. Five themes emerged: role as the happy comfort carer, division of labor, division of disclosure, role tension and frustration, and managing the division of disclosure. Role emphasis on comfort and happiness and a dominant perception that telling the truth can cause harm mean that disclosure will be withheld, edited, or partial. Participants'role understanding divides labor and disclosure responsibility between the personal carer and registered nurse. Personal carers' strategies for managing the division of disclosure include game playing, obfuscation, lying (denial), and the use of nonverbals. These perceptions about personal carer role, information sharing, and truth telling are paramount for understanding and improving nursing home eldercare
Denial · Front line · Happiness · Harm · Perception · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Qualitative Research Interview
Strategies for Sampling
Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded Theory Analysis
A Pack of Lies
Focus Groups as Qualitative Research
Qualitative Generalizability
Fourth-Generation Evaluation
Forms of address, discourse and aging
Daily life in a nursing home
Focus Groups
Nationalization and the Professional Ideal
Discovering’ chronic illness
Naturalistic inquiry
The social construction of reality
Focus groups
Nurse Assistant Mental Models, Sensemaking, Care Actions, and Consequences for Nursing Home Residents
Patterns of Medical and Nursing Staff Communication in Nursing Homes
Developing and Implementing a Triangulation Protocol for Qualitative Health Research
The Future of Grounded Theory
The interactional form of professional dominance
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |