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Total: 2 articles
Marie Shepherd RN. RM. BHSc.(Hons) FCHN. IBCLC. MRCNAUniversity of Tasmania
As part of my Bachelor of Nursing Honours course, this unit called for me to use the process of critical reflection to explore, in depth, my practice in the area of family and child health nursing. Becoming a parent is a major life transition and a life crisis (Percival, 1994: 296). As part of the universal service available to all families with children, in this state, I work autonomously, in the community, with families of children from birth to school age. I support women and their families in this, sometimes overwhelming, parenting role. I struggle, however, to articulate the value and importance of this nursing. In this critical reflective process, I come to realise the intangible and invisible aspects of my practice relate to the concept of care.
I explore caring from a cultural and social background, revealing how caring and nursing has been devalued, and that I too have questioned its importance. I explore the caring nature of my practice. Developing a trusting relationship, where professional expertise is not highlighted, is shown to have powerful healing benefits. This reflective process brings me to a deeper understanding and awareness that what I do is at the heart of nursing. It is based on care. I dispel any doubts of the value and importance of caring and what I do.
Wendy Spinks, RN, RM, B.App.Sc(NIS), MN, Grad.Dip.Adv.NIS(F&CH), University of Tasmania
By writing herself, women will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. (Cixous 1976, in Weedon 1987:68).
Authorised by Head of School, Nursing and Midwifery
1 April, 2011
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