[An encounter with foreign parts is not the objective of the journey. The reality of the return].
It is not only the experience of the "outside", the self-chosen possibility of disarrangement, of moving away from previously-binding sensory structures that determines the transcultural experience. It depends much more on a second step, of returning to oneself-- having returned from foreign parts, to re-integrate oneself into one's own culture. This means that the journey itself into foreign areas, the encounter with medical and nursing systems of other cultures, is in fact only half the journey; the complete journey is one which returns back into one's own (nursing) culture. Only when the nurse has succeeded--after his/her return--in newly regarding his/her own nursing activity--that is, with different eyes--in an expanded context and in recognizing the resulting changes, has he/she reached the real objective of his/her journey.
Wolber
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