title: Nursing, narrativity and research: toward a poetics and politics of orality.
abstract: 'Telling' our lives as they happen to us is an extremely pervasive activity in our social world. Through the stories which suture together the multiple ways we can make sense of a life as a nurse, is woven the fabric of a culture. Clinical nursing culture is, as yet, poorly understood and little theorised. By appropriating narrative as a research technology I suggest that we might be better placed to first articulate, and then critique, the complexity and diversity of clinical practice through a postmodern poetics and politics of orality.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods*; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D011057:Politics