The challenge of providing family-centred care during air transport: An example of reflection on action in nursing practice
Brenda E Hewitt
Master of Nursing student, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
PP: 118 - 124
Abstract
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.
Keywords
transport nursing; reflection; family-centred care; rural nursing, childbirth
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