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Nowhere Man: Podcasting and Storytelling in the Kimberley
Get PDFOver the past two years, Merridoo and Erin have collaborated to create the AB C podcast Expanse: Nowhere Man.
The six-part series revisits the strange saga of Robert Bogucki, who in 1999 disappeared into the Great Sandy Desert on a personal spiritual quest. But the podcast tackles much deeper and more complex questions, around Australia’s tense relationship with its remote landscapes, the attention given to survival feats by wealthy white people, and why so many Indigenous men have gone missing in northern Western Australia. The series also captures the little-known story of Merridoo Walbidi, who grew up in Yulparija country in the Great Sandy Desert, and saw white people for the first time in 1964.
It’s a complex and ambitious narrative that’s been a learning curve for both reporter and subject, with recordings undertaken during desert camps and numerous cups of tea in Broome.
With the final episode releasing in mid-August, Merridoo and Erin will come together to discuss what they learnt, the challenges of cross-cultural storytelling, and why it’s crucial the media builds trust to capture the personal, raw and sometimes traumatic stories of the Kimberley region
Nurses\u27 Models of Spiritual Care: Towards Understanding Variations in Practice
No full textBackground. Despite there being many models for how spiritual care should ideally be provided to patients at end of life, the way nurses actually provide spiritual care often departs from ideal.
Aim. To understand why nurse spiritual care practices for patients at end of life vary.
Method. The project was conducted in four phases using an emergent, sequential mixed-method design. A systematic review in Phase 1 identified factors that influence nurse spiritual care practices for patients at end of life. Using qualitative data obtained from a general sample of nurses, Phase 2 uncovered nurses\u27 understandings of spiritual care work and the relation of that understanding to their practice. Phase 3 focused on a quantitative analysis of the relationships between nurses\u27 understanding of spiritual care and nurse characteristics data (such as personal spirituality and education). Phase 4 examined whether the findings of Phases 2 and 3 would apply in a sample of palliative care nurses.
Results. The project uncovered a taxonomy comprising four distinct understandings, or models, of spiritual care among nurses: (1) active management of the patient experience; (2) responsive facilitation of the patient\u27s wishes; (3) accompaniment of the patient on the dying journey; and (4) empowering co-action with the patient. The models incorporate different bundles of spiritual care practices. The models can be ordered in terms of competence and are somewhat related to level of personal spirituality, frequency of spiritual care provision and experience in caring for the dying (whether on-the-job or formal training).
Conclusion. Nurses\u27 ascriptions to different spiritual care models: explain variations in spiritual care practices; suggest a way to assess and develop spiritual care competence; and present as descriptive models of spiritual care ethics that guide practice
