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Item Sustaining Hope: A Narrative Inquiry into Experiences of Hope in Nurses who care for People Living with HIV (PLWH)(University of Ghana, 2019-10-29) Puplampu, G.L.; Osafo, J.Hope is a behavioural phenomenon that is frequently referenced from the patient perspective. The health care providers are not considered hope deficient neither do their ability to sustain their hope with which they live their lives is deliberated about in their daily lives. Hope can be observed through actions in any setting such as in healthcare delivery. While hope is a vital force in the healthcare system particularly for those who deliver care or receive care in high mortality settings like HIV and AIDS, palliative care and infirmaries. There are few qualitative studies of hope in HIV management. The purpose of my study is to understand hope from the nurses’ perspective in HIV care practice. Narrative inquiry revealed contextual narrative threads of hope such as 1) Becoming a nurse for people living with HIV; 2) Experiences of practicing with hope; 3) Faith in God for which they gained strength; 4) Learning to live with hope from childhood. The emergent themes were not only experiences in the life that are related to the sustaining of hope but also internal beliefs that related to sustain the nurses’ hope such as faith in God. In conclusion nurses find hope vital in HIV care but this needs to be nourished.Item Sustaining Hope: A Narrative Inquiry Study Exploring Midwives' Hope-Focused Practices In HIV Care in Ghana(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2023) Puplampu, G.L.; LeMay, L.M.; Asamoah-Ampofo, E.; Caine, V.HIV remains a statistically significant issue for women of childbearing age in Ghana. Nurses and midwives form the backbone of care providers for the prevention of mother-to- child transmission programmes. However, nurses and midwives receive little support to provide the emotional aspects of HIV/AIDS care. Aim: Our aim was to build an understanding of how midwives currently embrace their experience of hope and hoping to support mothers living with HIV. Design: This is narrative inquiry study. Methods: We engaged in two to three conversations with five midwives in rural settings in Ghana to understand their experiences of hope and hoping in their interactions with mothers living with HIV. Using the narrative inquiry common places of temporality, the social and personal, and space/place, we wrote narrative accounts for each participant and then searched for resonances across the narrative accounts. Results: We highlight three emerging narrative threads that resonated across narrative accounts. The three emerging narrative threads were (1) sustaining hope by drawing on life experiences across time and place; (2) hope is sustained through a focus on relational engagement with mothers; (3) midwives embrace the possibility to learn more about hope-focused practices. Conclusion: The midwives began, although tentatively, to shine light on the things and events that diminished their abilities to maintain a hopeful perspective. At the same time, they became more comfortable and familiar with the notion of making hope visible and accessible in their experiences. Impact: Since the midwives welcomed additional support to cope with the challenges they were experiencing, we imagine one day being able to make sense of how nurses and midwives engage with a narrative pedagogy of hope. Including hope-focused practices in nursing and midwifery preservice and in-service opportunities is important. Patient or Public Contribution: There was no direct patient or public involvement in this study.