Patrick O'Byrne

Summary

Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Understanding disgust in nursing: abjection, self, and the other
    Dave Holmes
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 20:305-15. 2006
  2. ncbi Nondisclosure prosecutions and population health outcomes: examining HIV testing, HIV diagnoses, and the attitudes of men who have sex with men following nondisclosure prosecution media releases in Ottawa, Canada
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada
    BMC Public Health 13:94. 2013
  3. ncbi Indulgence, restraint, and the engagement of pleasure: inciting reflection using Nietzsche's ascetic ideal
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, School of Nursing, ON, Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 26:10-24. 2012
  4. ncbi Population health and social governance: analyzing the mainstream incorporation of ethnography
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Qual Health Res 22:859-67. 2012
  5. ncbi HIV prevention in the context of care: HIV testing and public health practice
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Public Health Nurs 29:175-84. 2012
  6. ncbi Researching marginalized populations: ethical concerns about ethnography
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Can J Nurs Res 40:144-59. 2008
  7. ncbi The micro-fascism of Plato's good citizen: producing (dis)order through the construction of risk
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Nurs Philos 8:92-101. 2007
  8. ncbi Desire, drug use and unsafe sex: a qualitative examination of gay men who attend gay circuit parties
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Cult Health Sex 13:1-13. 2011
  9. ncbi The dissection of risk: a conceptual analysis
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    Nurs Inq 15:30-9. 2008
  10. ncbi Understanding HIV viral load: implications for counselling
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
    Can J Public Health 99:189-91. 2008

Detail Information

Publications54

  1. ncbi Understanding disgust in nursing: abjection, self, and the other
    Dave Holmes
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 20:305-15. 2006
    ..Using a theoretical approach, the objective of this paper is to demonstrate how fruitful the concept of abjection is in understanding nurses' reactions of disgust and repulsion regarding particular patients or clinical situations...
  2. ncbi Nondisclosure prosecutions and population health outcomes: examining HIV testing, HIV diagnoses, and the attitudes of men who have sex with men following nondisclosure prosecution media releases in Ottawa, Canada
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada
    BMC Public Health 13:94. 2013
    ..The majority of studies to date have approached this topic from a sociological or legal perspective. As a result, the potential effect of nondisclosure prosecutions on population health and HIV prevention work remains mostly unknown...
  3. ncbi Indulgence, restraint, and the engagement of pleasure: inciting reflection using Nietzsche's ascetic ideal
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, School of Nursing, ON, Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 26:10-24. 2012
    ..The outcome of this analysis is an alternative conceptualization about the intersections between indulgence, pain, guilt, pleasure, and sexually transmitted infection...
  4. ncbi Population health and social governance: analyzing the mainstream incorporation of ethnography
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Qual Health Res 22:859-67. 2012
    ..In other words, ethnography helps generate the data that can be used to normalize large groups of people...
  5. ncbi HIV prevention in the context of care: HIV testing and public health practice
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Public Health Nurs 29:175-84. 2012
    ..This conclusion could help inform the development of public and population health HIV testing and HIV prevention policies/practices...
  6. ncbi Researching marginalized populations: ethical concerns about ethnography
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Can J Nurs Res 40:144-59. 2008
    ..This review found that while ethical risks are inherent, the benefits to society and to the group under study significantly outweigh the risks...
  7. ncbi The micro-fascism of Plato's good citizen: producing (dis)order through the construction of risk
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Nurs Philos 8:92-101. 2007
    ..The goal of this paper is to present an alternate understanding of risk to provide nurses and other healthcare professionals with a non-traditional appreciation of certain aspects of their practice as researchers and clinicians...
  8. ncbi Desire, drug use and unsafe sex: a qualitative examination of gay men who attend gay circuit parties
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Cult Health Sex 13:1-13. 2011
    ..This research was guided theoretically by Deleuze and Guattari's work on desire. Using this theoretical orientation, the results revealed that some GCP-goers intentionally use drugs/alcohol to form connections...
  9. ncbi The dissection of risk: a conceptual analysis
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    Nurs Inq 15:30-9. 2008
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  10. ncbi Understanding HIV viral load: implications for counselling
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
    Can J Public Health 99:189-91. 2008
    ..This is an important factor in preventing the spread of HIV as well as for HIV-positive individuals in not unintentionally exposing themselves to potential legal repercussions...
  11. ncbi Self-directed sexually transmitted infection testing: providing noninvasive sexual health services
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Appl Nurs Res 24:17-21. 2011
    ..Community/Participant feedback indicated that this testing method was a welcome adjunct to traditional services, thus suggesting that self-directed testing should be further explored...
  12. ncbi Drug use as boundary play: a qualitative exploration of gay circuit parties
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Subst Use Misuse 46:1510-22. 2011
    ..These revealed that drugs (including alcohol) were used intentionally to engage in unsafe sex, and then to justify this behavior after the fact. This process we called boundary play...
  13. ncbi An argument for practice-based public health research on sexually transmitted infection management
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Public Health Nurs 28:357-65. 2011
    ..The benefits that arise from long-term and widespread use of this approach may therefore outweigh the advantages that can occur from developing highly efficacious, but unused, STIs management strategies...
  14. ncbi The potential public health effects of a police announcement about HIV nondisclosure: a case scenario analysis
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Policy Polit Nurs Pract 12:55-63. 2011
    ..It is the assertion here that this undertaking thus conflicts with the overall public health goals of HIV prevention, and should likely not occur in the future...
  15. ncbi Faceless sex: glory holes and sexual assemblages
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Nurs Philos 11:250-9. 2010
    ..Finally, we reflect upon the particular ethical challenges that are posed by these particular sexual practices, and ask whether a post-structuralist ethic might be possible...
  16. ncbi Nursing so-called monsters: on the importance of abjection and fear in forensic psychiatric nursing
    Jean Daniel Jacob
    SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Forensic Nurs 5:153-61. 2009
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  17. ncbi Setting the space for sex: architecture, desire and health issues in gay bathhouses
    Dave Holmes
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ont, Canada K1H 8M5
    Int J Nurs Stud 44:273-84. 2007
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  18. ncbi The art of public health nursing: using confession technè in the sexual health domain
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Adv Nurs 56:430-7. 2006
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  19. ncbi Bareback sex and the law: the difficult issue of HIV status disclosure
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 44:26-33. 2006
    ..3. Nurses need to be aware of the components of HIV pretest counseling. 4. Adopting a nonjudgmental, matter-of-fact approach is essential in establishing effective therapeutic relationships with clients who engage in bareback sex...
  20. ncbi 'Airplanes are flying nursing homes': geographies in the concepts and locales of gerontological nursing practice
    Gavin J Andrews
    Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    J Clin Nurs 14:109-20. 2005
    ..These discussions set the scene for the final paper in this special section focused on the future research agenda for place and older people nursing...
  21. ncbi Health inequities, HIV, and public health practice: examining the role of qualitative research
    Patrick O'Byrne
    Faculty of Health Science, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 26:167-81. 2012
    ..Qualitative research, in other words, may be a technique that can be used to achieve biopolitical goals...
  22. ncbi The advantages and disadvantages of mixing methods: an analysis of combining traditional and autoethnographic approaches
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Canada
    Qual Health Res 17:1381-91. 2007
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  23. ncbi Evidence, virulence, and the disappearance of nursing knowledge: A critique of the evidence-based dogma
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Worldviews Evid Based Nurs 3:95-102. 2006
    ..Following the crowd, nursing has jumped onto this trend's bandwagon. Although some scholars and clinicians have tried to expand these notions, few have considered a deconstructive approach to do so...
  24. ncbi Nursing in corrections: lessons from France
    Dave Holmes
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    J Forensic Nurs 3:126-31. 2007
    ..The effects of this split are illustrated, and the French model examine for important perspectives for restructuring nursing services in Canada...
  25. ncbi Managing nurses through disciplinary power: a Foucauldian analysis of workplace violence
    Isabelle St-Pierre
    Faculty of Medicine, School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    J Nurs Manag 16:352-9. 2008
    ..This paper describes discipline as a specific technique of power which constitutes, in our view, a form of institutional violence...
  26. ncbi A documentation policy development proposal for clinicians caring for people living with HIV/AIDS
    Alyssa Bryan
    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Policy Polit Nurs Pract 13:98-104. 2012
    ..The outcome of these improvements could be an increase in PHAs' level of comfort with nurses knowing that policies exist...
  27. ncbi Exploring sexual networks: a pilot study of swingers' sexual behaviour and health-care-seeking practices
    Patrick O'Byrne
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Can J Nurs Res 43:80-97. 2011
    ..3%), vaginal (15.5%), or anal (30.8%), and rarely accessing STI health services (< 40.8%). The authors conclude that further research is needed to investigate the possible design and implementation of STI health services for swingers...
  28. ncbi The politics of nursing knowledge and education critical pedagogy in the face of the militarization of nursing in the war on terror
    Amelie Perron
    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada
    ANS Adv Nurs Sci 33:184-95. 2010
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  29. ncbi Citizen minds, citizen bodies: the citizenship experience and the government of mentally ill persons
    Amelie Perron
    Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Nurs Philos 11:100-11. 2010
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  30. ncbi Reflexivity, critical qualitative research and emancipation: a Foucauldian perspective
    Janet L McCabe
    School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Adv Nurs 65:1518-26. 2009
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  31. ncbi The anatomy of a forbidden desire: men, penetration and semen exchange
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5
    Nurs Inq 12:10-20. 2005
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  32. ncbi Humanism in forensic psychiatry: the use of the tidal nursing model
    Jean Daniel Jacob
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Nurs Inq 15:224-30. 2008
    ..Viewed from this perspective, it is clear that humanistic philosophy and its subsequent models of care are in discordance with the highly specialized field of forensic nursing...
  33. ncbi Beyond the art of governmentality: unmasking the distributional consequences of health policies
    Peter C Coyte
    Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    Nurs Inq 13:154-60. 2006
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  34. ncbi Re-evaluating current public health policy: alternative public health nursing approaches to sexually transmitted infection testing for teens and males who have sex with males
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5
    Public Health Nurs 22:523-8. 2005
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  35. ncbi Agents of care and agents of the state: bio-power and nursing practice
    Amelie Perron
    School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada
    J Adv Nurs 50:536-44. 2005
    ..This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the concept of bio-power in the context of nursing, including a critique of the widespread rhetoric that nursing is deprived of power and consequently is an apolitical agency...
  36. ncbi Governing the captives: forensic psychiatric nursing in corrections
    Dave Holmes
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences School of Nursing, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5
    Perspect Psychiatr Care 41:3-13. 2005
    ..Nursing practice in forensic psychiatry opens up new horizons in nursing. This complex professional nursing practice involves the coupling of two contradictory socio-professional mandates: to punish and to provide care...
  37. ncbi Rhizomatic thought in nursing: an alternative path for the development of the discipline
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5
    Nurs Philos 5:258-67. 2004
    ..Using the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this paper proposes an alternative way to conceive the development of nursing knowledge, which, we think, could represent an alternative way to explore the discipline of nursing...
  38. ncbi The mentally ill and social exclusion: a critical examination of the use of seclusion from the patient's perspective
    Dave Holmes
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Issues Ment Health Nurs 25:559-78. 2004
    ..A need for modifying the institutional culture surrounding seclusion and transforming nursing practices are discussed as are future research endeavours...
  39. ncbi Constructing monsters: correctional discourse and nursing practice
    Dave Holmes
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health, Sciences School of Nursing, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8M5
    Int J Psychiatr Nurs Res 8:942-62. 2003
    ..Monstrosity was a term regularly employed to describe particular types of inmates. The literature on monsters in quite informative in order to understand the impact of such a representation of forensic psychiatric nursing practice...
  40. ncbi Killing for the state: the darkest side of American nursing
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Nurs Inq 10:2-10. 2003
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  41. ncbi Police and pastoral power: governmentality and correctional forensic psychiatric nursing
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Nurs Inq 9:84-92. 2002
    ..This research consists of a study of nursing practice in an extreme setting that deserves a radical analysis...
  42. ncbi Governing therapy choices: power/knowledge in the treatment of progressive renal failure
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
    Philos Ethics Humanit Med 1:12. 2006
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  43. ncbi Paranoid investments in nursing: a schizoanalysis of the evidence-based discourse
    Dave Holmes
    University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Nurs Philos 8:85-91. 2007
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  44. ncbi Nursing Best Practice Guidelines: reflecting on the obscene rise of the void
    Dave Holmes
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    J Nurs Manag 16:394-403. 2008
    ..Drawing on the work of Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault, the purpose of this article is to critique the evidence-based movement [and its derivatives - Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPGs)] in vogue in all spheres of nursing...
  45. ncbi Moving beyond biomedical understanding of lipodystrophy in people living with HIV/AIDS
    Marilou Gagnon
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, ON Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 22:228-40. 2008
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  46. ncbi Nursing as means of governmentality
    Dave Holmes
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Adv Nurs 38:557-65. 2002
    ..Yet a closer look at his work reveals how Foucault offers a relevant entry point for revisiting nursing theory and nursing practice...
  47. ncbi The politics of nursing care: correcting deviance in accordance with the social contract
    Patrick O'Byrne
    University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Policy Polit Nurs Pract 10:153-62. 2009
    ..In using these concepts, our political perspective reframes nursing practice as a means by which an individual's potential or actual deviance (meaning a deviation from social norms) can be identified and then corrected...
  48. ncbi Mimetic desire and professional closure: toward a theory of intra/ inter-professional aggression
    Isabelle St-Pierre
    University of Ottawa School of Nursing, Ontario, Canada
    Res Theory Nurs Pract 24:128-43. 2010
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  49. ncbi Advanced practice: A clinical or political issue?
    Amelie Perron
    University of Ottawa School of Nursing, Ottawa, Ontario
    Can Nurse 102:26-8, 35. 2006
    ..This article takes a critical look at the specialization phenomena in nursing and encourages dialogue on underlying motivations and the quest for professional status..
  50. ncbi The relationship between organizational justice and workplace aggression
    Isabelle St-Pierre
    Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Adv Nurs 66:1169-82. 2010
    ..This paper is a discussion of the links between organizational justice and workplace aggression...
  51. ncbi Health care technology adoption and diffusion in a social context
    Peter C Coyte
    Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Policy Polit Nurs Pract 8:47-54. 2007
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  52. ncbi Governing masses: routine HIV testing as a counteroffensive in the war against HIV-AIDS
    Marilou Gagnon
    University of Ottawa, Canada
    Policy Polit Nurs Pract 9:264-73. 2008
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  53. ncbi No exit? Intellectual integrity under the regime of 'evidence' and 'best-practices'
    Stuart J Murray
    Faculty of Arts and School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
    J Eval Clin Pract 13:512-6. 2007
    ..In doing so, we offer an honest critique of these definitions and of the systemic power that is reproduced and guarded by the gatekeepers of 'Good Science'...
  54. ncbi Development and validation of the HIV Medication Readiness Scale
    Louise Balfour
    Ottawa Hospital General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Assessment 14:408-16. 2007
    ..The HMRS is a brief, easy-to-use, clinically relevant tool that can assist in identifying people living with HIV at high risk of nonadherence, who might benefit from tailored readiness counseling prior to initiating HIV medications...