Growing-up just like everyone else

Deindividuation of Drivers: Is Everyone Else a Bad Driver?

The reduction of self-consciousness due to anonymity provided by a group or the inability to be individually identified is known as deindividuation (DI; Festinger, Pepitone, & Newcomb, 1952). Previous DI research has been focused on group interactions (Festinger, Pepitone, & newcomb, 1952), anonymity (Zimbardo, 1969), and (more recently) computer-mediated communication (Lee, 2008). One previous...

Nurses' work with LGBTQ patients: "they're just like everybody else, so what's the difference"?

Informed by critical feminist and queer studies approaches, this article explores nurses' perceptions of practice with patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ). Qualitative in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 nurses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, illuminate a range of approaches to practice. Most commonly, participants argued that differences such as sex...

“To Work Just Like Anyone Else”—A Narrative from a Man Aging with Spinal Cord Injury

People aging with spinal cord injury (SCI) develop medical problems commonly associated with the aging process at a younger age than the general population. However, research about how the life story changes and how meaning will be experienced in occupations is lacking. The aim was to describe and offer an explanation of how a man experienced meaning in everyday occupations while aging with an ...

Just lip prints? No: there could be something else.

Growing up

To the casual observer, successful neonatal care may appear to end at the door of the neonatal unit along with the appreciations and farewells. However this is merely the end of the beginning, as the reality of life outside the neonatal unit commences for infant and family. This article examines the role of neonatal follow-up and some of the factors that determine how such services are currentl...