nursingforsocialjustice

I think that we are all trying our best to be successful in our lives. I woke up this morning with this notion in my head. I am fairly certain that I may have inherently believed this, this may have been a value that I have carried with me all along, but this morning when I woke up it has bubbled to the surface, occupying my thoughts and colouring my perspective for today. 
I think that the context of our lives changes what the individual both percieves and understand as success. I think that the context of each individual’s life also influences how we get from point A to B on terms of achieving that success. I just finished a 6 week we’d-based course on Motivational Interviewing. The biggest thing I took away from that course is that it really solidified that empathy, compassion and person and family centred care can only be a reality when the clinician stops viewing the clients story, their experience, from the clinician’s perspective  through the frame of reference of their life and starts viewing the client’s story from the context of their life.