Nrsg2701 Relational Nursing 2

Front 1

Entering into relation (getting in sync)

Back 1

Consciously and intentionally entering into respectful relation, walking alongside
Unconditional positive regard, paying attention to and noticing who you are joining

Front 2

Being in collaborative relation (staying in sync)

Back 2

Family and nurse work together to assess and intervene

Front 3

Inquiring into the family health & healing experience

Back 3

Inquiring into what is meaningful and significant to the family

Front 4

Following the lead of families

Back 4

Taking cues from families; take a stance of unknowing i.e. rather than quickly diagnosing “what is really going on”, be aware of the uncertainty of any “truth”

Front 5

Listening to & for

Back 5

Listen carefully to families, using a variety of lenses and all our senses and abilities
Be consciously aware of the theory that is guiding what you listen to and for

Front 6

Self-observation, Self-observation

Back 6

Self-knowing, conscious participation

Front 7

Letting be & change

Back 7

Letting be to know the family and their experience, and create opportunity for them to know more about their own experience, patterns, constraints, capacities and challenges

Front 8

Collaborative knowledge development

Back 8

Draw on both family knowledge and nursing knowledge

Front 9

Pattern recognition

Back 9

Identify underlying patterns of experience, family responses, capacity, and capacity-adversity

Front 10

Naming & supporting capacity

Back 10

Look beyond the surface to see and recognize capacity
Work with the family to enhance capacity and address adversity

Front 11

Emancipatory action

Back 11

Recognize and name inequities and structural conditions
Introduce alternative discourses, remedy structural inequalities, create coalitions