Affiliation:
1. Waitakere Hospital and Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
2. School of Health Care Practice, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
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.
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