A Sociological Study of Nurses' Care by Utilizing Narratives

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380707
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Sugiyama Jogakuen University
• Principal Investigator: TSUKADA MAMORU 椙山女学園大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (80217273)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 看護ケア / ナラティヴ / インタビュー / 看護師 / 終末期患者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project was designed to examine the role of narratives in nurses’ care activities by doing life story interviews with them. Through this analysis the project aims to propose nurses’ care framework utilizing the importance of narratives. As results the following four findings are shown. First, patients can give new meanings to their illness experiences by talking about them. Second, nurses can make deep and empathic understandings of their patients by listening to their narratives thoroughly. Third, nurses’ medical treatment of their patients based on their empathic understanding of the patients may improve their relationship with people around them who are worried about them. Fourth, nurses can not only share their care experiences by talking about their experiences among themselves but also reflect on their own experiences and thus make new awareness of their care activities.

Free Research Field

社会科学・社会学・社会学