Having just completed a two day course on the Dynamics of Whanaungatanga, I am even more envious of nursing students today who have the opportunity to explore these concepts as part of their undergraduate nursing training.Indeed New Zealand nurses have described this model of care in practice. The elements of whanaungatanga-Tapu, mana, Pono, Tiki and [...]
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Whanaungatanga and Nursing
Jun 20
Clear as Mud?
Jun 16
Nursing models have always made me shake my head in bewilderment.and this article has only made me feel better about my misgivings about the concept of a model espoused by one, to be followed blindly by many, with questionable value for patients.
Dissected to death????
Jun 8
What is it about nursing that makes funders/academics/anyone have to dissect every aspect of the nursing process/service/experience. We don’t see that volume of scrutiny focused on the doctoring process that I have ever noticed. Is it because we need to justify and prove the value of nursing because the financial benefits to an organisation from [...]
Squatters
Feb 27
I have found a new name for those nurses who have decided they will go no further in their chosen profession than where they have been for the past 10(15)(20) years…they are squatters of the worst kind. According to The Muse, they clog up the system, do not let other nurses on their way up [...]