University of Tasmania, Australia

Nuritinga Issue 5: August 2003 (ISSN 1440-1541)

Editorial

Nuritinga is a special journal. There are many nursing journals but Nuritinga specifically provides a showcase for student work. Nursing students are bright, articulate and seriously concerned with health, this is after all the reason they want to be become nurses. They have important insights to offer to the nursing world. In addition, registered nurses are increasingly expected to publish in order to share knowledge and understandings with colleagues. Publishing is also one way nurses can prove intellectual engagement when seeking advancement within the profession.

For these reasons it is important that students are encouraged to publish their work. Nuritinga accepts papers from all nursing students at all levels of their undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Papers are reviewed and writers are given feedback on their submissions. The quality of submitted work is high and we are delighted to have had the opportunity to publish a solid body of quality student work on a wide range of subjects over the past few years.

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Articles in Issue No. 5

Total: 1 article

Confronting Embodiment

Pip Rego, BN, RN, University of Tasmania

Abstract

In this discussion of an aspect of body care which I find confronting I intend drawing on a personal experience. This experience relates to the issue of faecal incontinence and involved a patient who, for the purpose of this assignment, I shall refer to by the pseudonym John. I will examine the approach I took based on my training and experience at the time and then incorporate more recent learning to reflect on how the interaction could have been managed. I was working in the community at the time and John was living in a boarding house. Having trained to be a nurse in the 1970's, I felt I was an experienced nurse and yet found myself in an extremely confronting situation. 

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