title: Enacting nursing obligations: Public Health Nurses' theorizing in practice.
abstract: A recent study illustrated Public Health Nurses' theorizing of obligation within their everyday practice with high priority families. As a practical (and practice) activity this theorizing shaped and enhanced PHN practice in complex nursing situations and served to affect desired outcomes for families. Using a hermeneutic methodology, six features were identified as central to this practical theorizing process: (a) being in the complexity of families' lives, (b) responding to relational cues, (c) putting the primary investment in people and families, (d) working toward potential, (e) working the relational "in-betweens," and (f) reflexive inquiry. The findings have implications for understanding theory and theory development in everyday nursing practice.
authors: School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. gdoane@uvic.ca
authors: Gweneth Hartrick
authors: GH
authors: Doane
authors: Annette J
authors: AJ
authors: Browne
authors: Joanne
authors: J
authors: Reimer
authors: Martha
authors: M
authors: MacLeod
authors: Edna
authors: E
authors: McLellan
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005190:Family; D017144:Focus Groups; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015399:Nursing Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011637:Public Health Nursing; D000078329:Workforce