Narratives and communication in health care practice

The article concerns the issue: How to deal with the increasing challenges of communication in the health care sector? On the one hand, it focuses on how to include the patient’s and relatives´ perspectives. On the other hand, it focuses on the existential/spiritual perspective which is now include...

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Main Author: Mariann B. Sørensen
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Aalborg University Open Publishing 2014-12-01
Series:Akademisk Kvarter
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Online Access:https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/3269
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description The article concerns the issue: How to deal with the increasing challenges of communication in the health care sector? On the one hand, it focuses on how to include the patient’s and relatives´ perspectives. On the other hand, it focuses on the existential/spiritual perspective which is now included in various official visions papers and recommendations. The main question is pedagogical: How do practitioners in the health sector i.e. in nursing deal with these perspectives? The materials are the Danish Health Board´s program of rehabilitation and palliative care, data from a focus group study, and data from published autobiographies. The analysis shows that challenges are centered on communication about existential and spiritual matters. The relationship between being professional, personal and private is focused on in the light of the concepts of empathy and epoché as well as in a discussion of a phenomenological approach. Finally, a teaching practice dealing with the challenges is outlined seeing education as an existential and relational activity.
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spelling doaj.art-a1b2cd495c9944259fc4038a913518792024-04-02T11:34:06ZdanAalborg University Open PublishingAkademisk Kvarter1904-00082014-12-010910.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i09.3269Narratives and communication in health care practiceMariann B. Sørensen The article concerns the issue: How to deal with the increasing challenges of communication in the health care sector? On the one hand, it focuses on how to include the patient’s and relatives´ perspectives. On the other hand, it focuses on the existential/spiritual perspective which is now included in various official visions papers and recommendations. The main question is pedagogical: How do practitioners in the health sector i.e. in nursing deal with these perspectives? The materials are the Danish Health Board´s program of rehabilitation and palliative care, data from a focus group study, and data from published autobiographies. The analysis shows that challenges are centered on communication about existential and spiritual matters. The relationship between being professional, personal and private is focused on in the light of the concepts of empathy and epoché as well as in a discussion of a phenomenological approach. Finally, a teaching practice dealing with the challenges is outlined seeing education as an existential and relational activity. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/3269health care, narratives, phenomenology, existential, communication
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Narratives and communication in health care practice
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health care, narratives, phenomenology, existential, communication
title Narratives and communication in health care practice
title_full Narratives and communication in health care practice
title_fullStr Narratives and communication in health care practice
title_full_unstemmed Narratives and communication in health care practice
title_short Narratives and communication in health care practice
title_sort narratives and communication in health care practice
topic health care, narratives, phenomenology, existential, communication
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