The challenge of providing family-centred care during air transport: an example of reflection on action in nursing practice.
This article explores reflection with regard to the nursing practice of a transport nurse in caring for ill newborn patients and their family. It examines the issue of reflective nursing practice, institutional obstacles, and angst in promoting the model of family-centred care, as it applies to newborn infants being transported for tertiary care to a hospital some distance away from the family's home community. Reflective practice is explored as an epistemological link between practice and research, locating one nurse's clinical experience in reflection and subsequent action, through clarification of thought-provoking issues and generation of research questions.
Hewitt
Brenda E
BE
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000379:methods; D016294:Models, Nursing; D033262:Narration; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000379:methods*