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Family health nursing and empowering relationships.
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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 studyprovides a rich understanding of the nurses' educational practices with new mothers.
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Author/s: Aston, Megan (M); Meagher-Stewart, Donna (D); Sheppard-Lemoine, Debbie (D); Vukic, Adele (A); Chircop, Andrea (A);
Affiliation: School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Pediatric nursing (Pediatr Nurs), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2006 Jan-Feb; vol 32 (issue 1) : pp 61-7
Dates: Created 2006/03/31; Completed 2006/05/02; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 16572540, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)
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