Publications


Books

McCaffrey, G. (2020). Nursing and humanities. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Moules, N.J., McCaffrey, G., Field, J., & Laing, C. (2015). Conducting hermeneutic research: From philosophy to practice. New York, NY: Peter Lang.  

Jardine, D.J., Gilham, C., & McCaffrey, G. (Eds.). (2015). On the pedagogy of suffering: Hermeneutic and Buddhist meditations. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 

Book Chapters

McCaffrey, G. (2022). Making sense in nurse education. In M. Lipscomb (Ed.). Complexity and values in nurse education: Dialogues on professional education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12345

McCaffrey, G. (1998). Therapeutic use of leisure activities. In E. Barnes, P. Griffiths, J. Ord, & D. Wells (Eds.), Face to face with distress: The professional use of self in psychosocial care (pp. 71-82). London, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann.  

Journal Articles

McCaffrey, G, Wilson, E., Jonatansdottir, S., Zimmer, L., Zimmer, P., Graham, I., Snadden, D., & MacLeod, M. (2022). But is it hermeneutic enough?: Reading for methodological salience in a scoping review of hermeneutics and implementation science. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211070408

McCaffrey, G. (2020). Kasulis’ intimacy/integrity heuristic and epistemological pluralism in nursing. Nursing Philosophy 2020;00:e12333https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.123333

McCaffrey, G. (2019). Touching from a distance: Nursing and carnal hermeneutics. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.68015

McCaffrey, G. (2019). A humanism for nursing? Nursing Inquiry, 26(2), e12281, 1-7. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/10.1111/nin.1228

McCaffrey, G., Venturato, L., Patterson, J.D., Langille, J., Jackson, R., & Rosenal, T. (2017). Bringing a novel to practice: An interpretive study of reading a novel in an undergraduate nursing practicum course. Nurse Education in Practice, 24, 84-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2017.04.001

McCaffrey, G. (2016). Compassion and the pharmakon of the health humanities. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2016: 13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.53292

McCaffrey, G. & McConnell, S. (2015). Compassion: a critical review of peer-reviewed nursing literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(19-20), 3006-3015. DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12924

McCaffrey, G. (2015). Lyric in healthcare. The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 10(3), 1-8. Doi: https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v10i03/1-8

McCaffrey, G. (2014). Host and guest: An applied hermeneutic study of mental health nurses’ practices on inpatient units. Nursing Inquiry, 21(3), 238-245. doi: 10.1111/nin.12065 

McCaffrey, G. (2012). “The pure guidelines of the monastery are to be inscribed in your bones and mind” Dogen: Mental health nurses’ practices as ritualized behavior. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2012:12. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jah/article/view/53211

McCaffrey, G., Raffin-Bouchal, S., & Moules, N.J. (2012). Buddhist thought and nursing: A hermeneutic exploration.Nursing Philosophy, 13, 87-97.

McCaffrey, G. (1998). The use of leisure activities in a therapeutic community. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 5(1): 53-58.

McCaffrey, G. & Moules, N.J. (2016). Encountering the Great Problems in the Street: Enacting Hermeneutic Philosophy as Research in Practice Disciplines. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2016: 1. Doi:  https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.53270

Web Post

McCaffrey, G. (2020). Notes on carnal hermeneutics and mental health nursing. Hermeneutical movements website. http://hermeneuticalmovements.com/carnal-heremeneutics-and-covid-19/notes-on-carnal-hermeneutics-and-mental-health-nursing-by-graham-mccaffrey/