Producing the magnum opus : A metaphor for nephrology nursing expertise acquisition

Aim. This paper elucidates the nature of metaphor and the conditions necessary to its use as an analytic device in qualitative research, and describes how the use of metaphor assisted in the analytic processes of a grounded theory study of nephrology nursing expertise. Background. The use of metaphor is pervasive in everyday thought, language and action. It is an important means for the comprehension and management of everyday life, and makes challenging or problematic concepts easier to explain. Metaphors are also pervasive in quantitative and qualitative research for the same reason. In both everyday life and in research, their use may be implicit or explicit. Methods. The study using grounded theory methodology took place in one renal unit in New South Wales, Australia between 1999 and 2000 and included six non-expert and 11 expert nurses. It involved simultaneous data collection and analysis using participant observation, semi-structured interviews and review of nursing documentation. Findings. A three stage skills-acquisitive process was identified in which an orchestral metaphor was used to explain the relationships between stages and to satisfactorily capture the data coded within each stage. Conclusion. Metaphors create images, clarify and add depth to meanings and, if used appropriately and explicitly in qualitative research, can capture data at highly conceptual levels. Metaphors also assist in explaining the relationship between findings in a clear and coherent manner. © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

opus inscriptum : liber de arte honestè amandi, et de reprobatione inhonesti amoris, editus et compilatus à Magistro Andrea, Francorum aulae regiae Capellano ; ad Galterium amicum suum cupientem in exercitu amoris militare : in quo quidem libro cujuscumque gradus et ordinis mulier ab homine cujuscumque conditionis et status ad amorem sapientissimè invitatur, et ultimò, in fine ipsius libri, de amoris reprobatione subjungitur.

Baluzianus, antea Joannis Baptistae Hautin

1.° Eusebii Pamphili, Caesareensis, chronicon : sancto Hieronymo interprete. — 2.° Brevis chronologia ex Hieronymo et Severo collecta. — 3.° Opusculum cujus titulus est : Consules ordinarii post opus sancti Hieronymi constituti, quorum ultimus est Basilius. — 4.° Excerpta quaedam ad monasticam vitam pertinentia.

Colbertinus, antea Petri Pithoei

Pietro DE' CRESCENZI, Traité d'économie rurale ou Opus ruralium commodorum ; traduction française.

Copie de l'édition de 1486, imprimée à Paris, par Jean Bonhomme, pour Antoine Vérard.

1.° Compilatio de principiis naturae, cujus titulus est : Mihi cordi ; collecta per Magistrum Joannem de Siccavilla. — 2.° Anonymi tractatus de coloribus. — 3.° Liber de viribus animae ; à Fratre Alberto Teutonico editus. — 4.° Anonymi liber inscriptus : Distinctiones communes de diversis, ad physicam pertinentes. — 5.° Liber de entium quidditate, à Fratre Thoma, ordinis Praedicatorum editus. — 6.° Anonymi summa super libro quarto meteororum. — 7.° Liber philosophiae Algazer : interprete Magistro Dominico, Archidiacono Segobiensi. — 8.° Anonymi opus inscriptum : Liber fontis et vitae ; sive tractatus de intelligentiis. — 9.° Anonymi propositiones super libros naturales ; sive varia Philosophorum axiomata.

Colbertinus

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