From Being Caregiver to Being Cared for: The Experience of Adapting to Spinal Cord Injury, a Case Study.

Autor: Fernández-Moya M; Life Sciences Division, Nursing and Obstetrics Department, Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato 38140, Mexico., Ortega-Jiménez M; Nursing and Obstetrics Department, Celaya-Salvatierra Campus, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato 38140, Mexico., Moreno-Fergusson ME; Doctoral Program in Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Nutrition, University of La Sabana, Chía 53753, Colombia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) [Nurs Rep] 2022 Aug 05; Vol. 12 (3), pp. 556-563. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 05.
DOI: 10.3390/nursrep12030054
Abstrakt: This narrative case study portrays a young woman's life experience and adjustment process after suffering a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) 5 years ago. It is analyzed retrospectively from the perspective of the middle-range theory (MRT) of adapting to chronic health conditions by Buckner and Hayden (2014), and Ricoeur's narrative philosophy is expanded. Understanding Alice's narrative from this perspective allows us to understand the process of adaptation to a condition of disability due to a spinal cord injury, from the perspective of a nurse who was forced to change her role as a caregiver to a role of being cared for, due to the changes in her body and her corporality due to the consequences of the injury. In this narrative, the focal and contextual stimuli, the coping processes with special emphasis on the intrinsic and extrinsic adaptive processes, and the results of the process are identified.
Databáze: MEDLINE