Narratives of recovery from traumatic injury: issues in the nursing care of patients in rehabilitation Cox, Helen, Turner, de Sales and Penney, Wendy 2002, Narratives of recovery from traumatic injury: issues in the nursing care of patients in rehabilitation, JARNA : Official journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses' Association Inc., vol. 5, no. 3, Spring, pp. 8-15. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Narratives of recovery from traumatic injury: issues in the nursing care of patients in rehabilitation Author(s) Cox, Helen Turner, de Sales Penney, Wendy Journal name JARNA : Official journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses' Association Inc. Volume number 5 Issue number 3 Season Spring Start page 8 End page 15 Publisher Australiasian Rehabilitation Nurses Association, Inc Place of publication Putney, N.S.W. Publication date 2002 ISSN 1440-3994 Summary Patients who sustain multiple orthopaedic injuries through trauma frequently undergo lengthy rehabilitation. There is little information available about how patients experience hospital rehabilitation programs. In particular, not much is known about factors that inhibit or facilitate the rehabilitation process. This paper describes a qualitative study that explored the rehabilitation  experiences of thirteen patients who had serious orthopaedic injuries.  In-depth interviews revealed issues about good and bad care, the importance of mateship, getting through the day and living with pain. In addition, participants spoke of the impact that the accident and resulting injuries had on their relationships, their experience of loss, how difficult it was to manage everyday issues and the ways in which the accident changed them. The findings of the study have been set into a framework of therapeutic emplotment, a novel way to view the role of the rehabilitation nurse. Language eng Field of Research 111004 Clinical Nursing: Tertiary (Rehabilitative) HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2002, JARNA Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001518 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 11:05:32 EST Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 10:05:03 EST Fri, 06 Feb 2015, 10:06:35 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 750 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 07:59:12 EST