Public health nurses as social mediators navigating discourses with new mothers

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-288

  Aston, Megan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Family care; Feminist research; Poststructuralism; Power relations; Public health nurses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTHER; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PHILOSOPHY; POSTNATAL CARE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

COMMUNICATION; FAMILY NURSING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NEGOTIATING; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POSTNATAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 56649114124     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2008.00408.x     Document Type: Article

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