{"title":"International humanitarian nursing work: facing difference and embracing sameness.","authors":"Graham Zinsli, Elizabeth A Smythe","doi":"10.1177/1043659608330351","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the experience of humanitarian disaster and emergency nursing, asking the question, \"How is difference (and sameness) in being a nurse revealed when working in a disaster/relief context?\" The articles discusses interviews with seven nurses, plus the primary researcher, who tell their stories of humanitarian nursing. Stark differences are revealed: extent of injuries, limits of treatment, and overwhelmingness of need. Alongside this is the huge difference of personal danger. Sameness shows itself in the human-to-human call and response to need that holds nurses in such work. Difference and sameness are not fixed; one readily becomes the other.</p>","PeriodicalId":211241,"journal":{"name":"Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society","volume":" ","pages":"234-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1043659608330351","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659608330351","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article explores the experience of humanitarian disaster and emergency nursing, asking the question, "How is difference (and sameness) in being a nurse revealed when working in a disaster/relief context?" The articles discusses interviews with seven nurses, plus the primary researcher, who tell their stories of humanitarian nursing. Stark differences are revealed: extent of injuries, limits of treatment, and overwhelmingness of need. Alongside this is the huge difference of personal danger. Sameness shows itself in the human-to-human call and response to need that holds nurses in such work. Difference and sameness are not fixed; one readily becomes the other.