Continuing Conversation about Continuing Bonds

The article is a response to the contributions the special issue of Death Studies on continuing bonds. The contributions indicate that the conversation among scholars has clarified our thinking on how bonds function in individual grief. The author discussed two issues to help keep the conversation moving: (a) the relationship of continuing bonds to the complex we call adjustment to or resolution of grief, and (b) the social and communal nature of continuing bonds. In the first, the author concluded that the hypothesis that continuing bonds either help or hinder grief adjustment too simple to account for the evidence. In the second, he argued that cultural/political narratives are woven into individual grief narratives and if we do not include community, cultural, and political narratives in our understanding of continuing bonds we are in danger building bereavement theory that applies to only a small portion of one population in one historical time.     

英语会话及医院常用词汇

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Starting the Conversation About Left Ventricular Assist Devices

Some patients with advanced heart failure (HF) are eligible for consideration of a left ventricular assist device, a mechanical assist device that aids in improving cardiac output. However, having the first conversation to introduce the topic to a patient is often challenging because of the lifelong implications of obtaining an implanted device. In-depth semistructured interviews were used in this pilot study to explore how nurse practitioners have the first conversation with potentially eligible patients. Results were conceptually framed around the Serious Illness Conversation Guide, which has been used to structure meaningful conversations with very ill patients.     

Conversation across paradigms: unitary-transformative and critical feminist perspectives

The purpose of this article is to convey a conversation that occurred over a period of months between a unitary-transformative scholar and a critical feminist scholar. The intention of our conversation was to uncover, through dialogue and engagement, ways in which these two paradigms might help us understand the forces and conditions which impede and may liberate full expression of health and well-being. Areas of essential tensions addressed were the relationships of action and theory, sense and soul, stories and numbers, and aesthetics and empirics. Critical conversational points were notions of liberation, consciousness and social conditions, unpredictability and acausality, and potentials for reconciliation that would serve nursing and society. We concluded that although there are significant differences that exist between the two paradigms, there are areas in which we might begin to speak with one voice for the betterment of nursing and health care.     

Conversation Starter: Advancing the Theory of Peer-Assisted Learning

This Conversation Starter article uses four selected abstracts, one each from the four regional Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Educational Affairs (CGEA) 2018 spring meetings, as a springboard for unpacking the definition of peer-assisted learning (PAL). The aim of this article is to prompt deeper reflection on this phenomenon and, in so doing, to foster scholarly program evaluation of this widely adopted instructional approach. This analysis calls for a more nuanced definition of PAL, one that emphasizes process over structure, one that stimulates examination of “doing” PAL and how this affects the personal and professional development of all involved.