Nursing 1170A/B Chapter week 10: Week-10-Reading
9 Dec 2016
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Many authors in nursing and other human sciences have recognized the need for and importance of personal narrative, its relationship to aesthetic knowing and its value in qualitative research and in practice. People make sense of the world and themselves in it by creating self stories which have the qualities of narratives. As nurses, we get a glimpse into these personal narratives when we take a history or carry out an admission to a care setting. Personal narratives are especially relevant in mental health nursing, where they become the currency for care. Working with people to uncover deep meanings in their stories creates opportunities for healing and for hope as old self stories are rewritten and new ones are envisioned. Casting the person as the hero of their own story rather than as a victim of life circumstances changes the self-image in a positive way and places the nurse appropriately as a peripheral figure in the person"s story.
