Massage as a nursing intervention: using reflection to achieve change in practice.
The process of reflection can be used by nurse educators to more fully understand the nature of nursing practice and to actively use that understanding to bring about change through education. This paper documents a process of reflection carried out by a nurse educator within an action research project. The project was intended to assist palliative care nurses to learn the skill of massage and successfully integrate this therapy into their practice. Reflection takes place before the action to achieve change is implemented, in order to identify factors which will affect the development and implementation of the project. The reflection includes discussion of methodological issues, consideration of the influence of massage and holism in nursing practice and the influence of practice and institutional factors on palliative care nursing.
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School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Albury/Wodonga.
D006302:Health Services Research; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008405:Massage / Q000451:nursing*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking