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Hi Isabel, I am a nursing working in Palliative care and health
promotion. I have just finished 1 month volunteer work in a Thai Buddhist
hospice. My PhD was in education using action research as I designed, piloted and
evaluated a new curriculum for the healing enquiring nurse. I now have a
Masters level course in Complementary and Alternative Medicine approved in
Japan. I know how you feel as I often use to think that education was different
from my practice, however I know now that my AR enquiry never stopped and
evolves as my understanding changes. The challenges and powers issues sometimes
seem impossible to confront. But one individual can truly make a difference. I
am working on integrated care curriculum design project which is looking
at health promotion issues with the community in a Japanese context sometimes I
ask myself why do I do this? Then I remember my passion and attachment to the
relief of suffering. It helps sustain me as the inflated egos of those whom
assume power is everything in endless meetings about meetings that have nothing
to do with actual care delivery..smile. It’s good to talk so lets do so!
Love and respect
Je Kan
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Isabel
Sent: 22 September 2009 03:08
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Subject: Re: Envisioning and Developing a Research & Teaching Centre
for the Child and Family: A multi-disciplinary & inter-professional action
research project
Hi Geisha
thank you for your
encouragement and I will search specifically for articles now that I am in the
midst of my study. I have lots of literature and books on action research but
will revisit the action research journal as I may have missed more recent
articles. It is interesting that some professional disciplines may be more
willing to collaborate than others.
Regards
Isabel
Isabel Dosser
Lecturer in cancer and palliative care
74 Canaan Lane
Edinburgh EH9 2TB
Tel: 0131 455 5613
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Sent: 21 September 2009 16:37
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Subject: Re: Envisioning and Developing a Research & Teaching Centre
for the Child and Family: A multi-disciplinary & inter-professional action
research project
Hi!!
Isabel thank you for your comments, it is good to feel that we share
difficulties sometimes and that we try to find a way to colaborate in
order to find solutions. I understand your point very well because
I have a sister who works in Nuclear Medicine at the Central University here in
Caracas. Though she has a special feeling for teaching, after talking to
her about Action Research , living theories and colaborative work
as a way to improve practice, my feelings are that they are not
interested . Somehow it is because they are very busy, they teach
and see patients all day, but also my feeling is that Medical
Doctors have a very define structure of work at individual level and
colaboration takes diferent ways . However ,there has been many papers at
the Action Research Journal on Nurses in Health that you may find
interesting.
Greetings, geisha
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009
16:33:29 +0100 Hi Geisha My action
research study for my Phd is different in that it is within two hospital
wards in a large teaching hospital, however I can identify with the
difficulties you have encountered as I too struggled to have the nurses
released to share and discuss the project. We did manage two interventions
eventually but I am not starting in another ward and am having to take a
different approach with them althogether and I can already tell it is going
to be just as difficult because of the lack of resources and organisational
structure. I have found
it difficult to engage in many of the exchanges although I read them, mainly
because most people seem to be engaged in educational action research and not
in health care. I would like to hear from anyone else who is participating in
a health care project. Regards Isabel Isabel Dosser Lecturer in cancer and palliative care 74 Canaan Lane Edinburgh EH9 2TB Tel: 0131 455 5613 From:
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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009
20:10:17 +0100 Dear All I am writing to ask whether you are interested in being
involved in an exciting new initiative being started by Liverpool Hope
University. This email gives background information; the attached paper
gives more information about the project itself. I am a recently appointed full-time lecturer at Liverpool Hope
University, based in the Education Faculty. Early in my career, I
qualified as a social worker, moved into social work education, and for the
last 20 years have worked as a consultant, trainer, and manager running my
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because I wanted to create the time and space to engage more directly with
academic research and writing. I had also been made aware of the
possibility of being involved in the development of an innovative teaching
and research centre, looking at promoting inter-professional and
multi-disciplinary work with children, families and communities. Given
the many challenges experienced by children’s services, and the lack of
communication between them and other organisations concerned with the
wellbeing of young people, it seemed an important initiative to be part
of. The Research & Teaching Centre for the Child and Family
(provisional name, may be changed if a more appropriate one is created) has
now been approved in principle by the University Senate, and I am in the
process of developing ideas as to how it should develop. Jack Whitehead
is to be centrally involved in its development. I am seeking to
encourage the participation of academics and practitioners from any context
related to children, families and communities who are attracted to what they
read in the attached paper. This paper gives an initial outline of the
principles which are informing the thinking behind the Centre so far. The intention is to plan a day at Liverpool Hope University
when all those interested can meet together to think creatively, and explore
possibilities of engaging in a collaborative inquiry. In the meantime,
your thoughts, comments and ideas would be greatly welcomed. I am
wanting to engage as much energy and creativity as I can into this project;
so those of you who often feel frustrated about what you feel to be possible,
or feel that however imaginatively you work there is still scope for more collaborative
ventures crossing traditional boundaries, please join us in exploring so far
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