Contemporary theories and contemporary nursing-Advancing nursing care for those who are marginalised
Kierrynn Davis
School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW
Nel Glass
Nursing Research Unit, ACU National/St Vincent’s and Mercy Private Hospital, Fitzroy VIC
PP: 32
Abstract
This paper critiques the topic of post modernism and how it is represented in nursing and social science literature. This critique classified the debates into three identifiable constructs, those being: dissatisfaction, fragmentation and integration.
The authors propose a solution from the integration debate by putting forward the notion of an 'integrated postmodern turn'. The 'solution' is situated within feminism and draws on modernist and postmodernist theory. The integrated model is grounded in nursing clinical examples which demonstrate the usefulness and workability of this approach when caring for those who are marginalised by nurses because of their ethnicity, gender, cultural and/or spiritual beliefs.
Keywords
postmodernism, nursing, feminism, marginalised, difference
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