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Bakhtin, nursing narratives, and dialogical consciousness
1Department of English, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada.
ANS. Advances in Nursing Science
|March 1, 1997
Summary
This study explores Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical narrative approach, highlighting its relevance to nursing communication and patient care. It suggests dialogue is key to developing nursing knowledge and understanding personhood.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Philosophy of Science
- Communication Studies
Background:
- Dialogical interaction is crucial in nursing narrative, discourse, and communication.
- Patient narratives are central to humanistic nursing, but theoretical aspects of dialogue in nursing knowledge development are underexplored.
- Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical narrative approach offers a framework for understanding nursing concepts.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the application of Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical narrative approach to nursing practice.
- To connect Bakhtin's theories on dialogue with nursing concepts of narrative, interaction, and personhood.
- To suggest implications for a postmodern clinical epistemology in nursing.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and theoretical analysis.
- Application of Bakhtin's dialogical narrative theory to nursing practice.
- Conceptual exploration of narrative, dialogue, and personhood in nursing.
Main Results:
- Bakhtin's dialogical narrative approach provides a valuable lens for examining nursing interactions.
- The approach enhances understanding of patient narratives and nursing responses.
- It offers insights into developing nursing knowledge through dialogical processes.
Conclusions:
- The dialogical narrative approach is highly relevant to nursing practice and theory development.
- Integrating Bakhtin's concepts can enrich nursing's understanding of communication, narrative, and personhood.
- This theoretical framework supports a postmodern clinical epistemology in nursing.