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Nursing, narrativity and research: Toward a poetics and politics of orality
Kim Walker
Practice Development and Research Coordinator,
St Vincent's Private Hospital, Sydney; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney NSW
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 theorized. 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.
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