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- Title
Family Health Nursing and Empowering Relationships.
- Authors
Megan Aston; Meagher-Stewart, Donna; Sheppard-Lemoine, Debbie; Vukic, Adele; Chircop, Andrea
- Abstract
Purpose: To examine how empowerment, as an ideology and a practice of teaching and learning, was understood and applied by public health nurses (PHNs) in health education with child bearing and child rearing families. Method: Feminist poststructuralism was used to guide data collection and analysis. In-depth, individual interviews were conducted with three mothers and three PHNs and explored the different perspectives held by mothers and PHNs during a home visit. Findings: Moments of conflict, contradiction, affirmation, and agreement highlighted various empowering relations. Individual choice and recognition of knowledge and power exemplified how both mothers and PHNs used their "agency" to position themselves into a particular relationship. The analysis includes five sections: (a) mother's perceptions of PHNs, (b) normalization as problematic: the good/bad dichotomy, (c) professional/expert: the balance of power, (d) working the relationship, and (e) reflections on empowerment. Conclusion: The information gathered from this study provides a rich understanding of the nurses' educational practices with new mothers.
- Subjects
FAMILY nursing; PUBLIC health nurses; FAMILY medicine; PUBLIC health personnel; COMMUNITY health nursing
- Publication
Pediatric Nursing, 2006, Vol 32, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0097-9805
- Publication type
Article