CQU to research "at-home" nursing
Published on 08 April, 2004
Central Queensland University researchers will interview nurses who have cared for at-home patients in Central Queensland for the last 50 years.
Faculty of Arts Health and Sciences lecturer Wendy Madsen said the group aims to document the working lives of domiciliary nurses who responded to the health needs of patients in the community between 1960 and 1990.
The Queensland stories will be collected and compared with the experiences of domiciliary nurses in England.
\\\\\\\"We are particularly interested in how the services responsible for this type of nursing have evolved within Central Queensland. We are looking for nurses who worked as either domiciliary or community health nurses between 1960 and 1990. In particular we would like to contact people who worked during the early years and were responsible for establishing the services, \\\\\\\" Ms Madsen said.
\\\\\\\"We know for example that Blue Care has been providing a home based nursing service for the last 50 years. I am very keen to talk to the people from this organization and the many others throughout the region who no doubt have great stories to tell about the way things were and indeed are at present.
\\\\\\\"This data will then be compared to material collected in the same way at the same time by my colleague in England. We will be looking to see if there are similarities and differences of nursing and community based nursing services between Australia and England.\\\\\\\".
\\\\\\\"The interview will guided by the use of a number of questions, however, individuals will be encouraged to outline their experiences at large, to ensure we capture all the relevant information and real life tales. It should only take around one hour, so it is not much time to give to a worthwhile research project,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Ms Madsen said.
The information gathered as part of this project will form the basis of several papers to be published within nursing and historical journals and/or conferences. The researchers involved with this project are CQU Bundaberg\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Teresa Sander, Sonja Cleary, and Wendy Madsen and CQU Rockhampton\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Jenny Klotz and Julie Bradshaw.