title: Women's experiences of heart surgery recovery: a poetical dissemination.
abstract: In this article, I provide a review of the empirical literature on women's experiences of recovery from heart surgery. I suggest that recovery is gendered in that women's experiences interface with the spaces and places that women inhabit. As a result, it is important for nurses to consider care from an interpretive framework. Recognizing the need to tailor research dissemination to the subject matter at hand (peoples' experiences) and the research methodology most appropriate to inquire into peoples' experiences (qualitative), I employ an unconventional method of research dissemination in the literary form of poetry. The type of evidence that emerges within qualitative research demands we take a critical look at how we disseminate knowledge. Poetical dissemination of research may engage nurses on a different level of thinking and invite nurses to reconceptualize their practice based on the evidence.
authors.affiliation: FUTURE Program for Cardiovascular Nurse Scientists, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. j.lapum@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lapum
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D033262:Narration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D036301:Qualitative Research; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012107:Research Design; D012737:Sex Factors; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health