Shepherd Marie Louise
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS, Australia.
Contemp Nurse. 2011 Feb;37(2):137-48. doi: 10.5172/conu.2011.37.2.137.
This study, on the home visiting practice of child and family health nurses, looked at their often unacknowledged role in supporting women's emotional health and well being, and how difficult it is to articulate this work. Observations of home visits, and recorded group and individual interviews with nurses were conducted in this ethnographic study, in regional Australia. The data was analysed using thematic analysis. The tension between the nurse's role in caring for the baby and taking care of women's emotional health and wellbeing emerged as a major theme. Manifest and latent functions are used to describe the nature of community child health nurses' practice where nurses covertly address the health and wellbeing needs of the mother via the overt function of monitoring the child's health and development. Nurses often use a focus on the baby to legitimate addressing women's emotional health and wellbeing.
这项关于儿童与家庭健康护士家访实践的研究，审视了她们在支持女性情绪健康和幸福方面常常未得到认可的角色，以及阐述这项工作有多困难。在澳大利亚地区进行的这项人种志研究中，对家访进行了观察，并对护士进行了记录在案的小组访谈和个人访谈。数据采用主题分析法进行分析。护士在照顾婴儿与关注女性情绪健康和幸福之间的紧张关系成为一个主要主题。显功能和潜功能被用来描述社区儿童健康护士的实践性质，即护士通过监测儿童健康和发育这一显功能，暗中满足母亲的健康和幸福需求。护士们常常通过关注婴儿来合理地处理女性的情绪健康和幸福问题。
