Complexity and contradiction - home care in a multicultural area : Complexity and contradiction

• The aim of this study was to explore the meaning of experience for home care nurses in a multicultural area of Sweden. Interviews and group discussions with a team of five home care nurses were interpreted according to a hermeneutical perspective. The meaning was expressed in connection with the complexities of place, and space for care. Contradictions developed from diversities of perspectives incorporated in this specific multicultural area. Nurses saw themselves as mediators and allowed complexity to be considered in order to manage care. They took on responsibility of creating a ‘space of care’ while the organizational structures of home care were perceived as something outside the care praxis. Making contradictions evident render an intermediary caring strategy feasible.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Hermeneutics

home

care

multicultural issues

place

space of care

transcultural care

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)