An exploration of deaf women's access to mental health nurse education in the United Kingdom
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Introduction to the Study
In 1999 a number of lead nurses and senior clinicians from the UK's National Services for Mental health and Deafness came together with the then English National Board for Nursing and Midwifery to establish the first Deaf People's Access to Nursing Project (DPANE). The aim of the project was to address the situation whereby whilst deaf people worked in services for deaf people who were experiencing mental health problems, they tended to work in unqualified positions. The project originators
Methodology and Method
The study's aim was to critically analyse the qualified nurses' experiences before, during and after their nursing programme. The study was completed by the project lead and so at no point was there any attempt to have objective distance. The approach was auto ethnographic (Chang, 2008, Etherington, 2006) and reflexive in nature; more fundamentally it utilised the democratic communication ideal of Habermas (2006) and the emancipatory principles of Paulo Freire, 1970, Freire, 2004 as a
Community of Practice Through a Democratic Communication Ecology
The findings suggests that in education work needs to focus on increasing the competence of teaching and learning staff to manage linguistic diversity in the classroom and to enable staff to develop the shared language and peer support mechanisms associated with CoP within the student population (Christiansen and Bell, 2010). The students and staff will also benefit from language learning opportunities to facilitate the connection between deaf and hearing students in the classroom and the
Conclusion
This study is unique in that it has gathered the thoughts and feelings of the first deaf qualified nurses to register with the NMC. Their thoughts have been analysed the lens of empowerment and ideal communication philosophy in order to frame their voices within a model that others could develop to address the access needs of other diverse communities. There remain barriers to nursing, social work and other health professions for deaf people. The barriers are relatively easy to overcome from a
Acknowledgement
The author is grateful for the support of Dr. Nancy Jane Smith (supervisor), School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Salford.
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