Facilitating Whole Person Care Using Video Reflexive Ethnography
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Aim: Explore the application and potential of video reflexive ethnography (VRE) to facilitate whole person care (WPC).
Objectives: Discuss the ethical issues associated with VRE; explore the foundations of the methodology; and discuss its potential to facilitate WPC.
Description: WPC requires a paradigm shift in how we see those we care for, how we see our co-workers and how we see ourselves. VRE involves videoing real-time everyday clinical practice and or patient and family accounts of care, and then involving participants to analyse the visual data that they feature in or have gathered themselves. Uniquely, video footage can challenge the taken for granted and attune people to dimensions of themselves and others that they might not otherwise have considered. This has the potential to open people up to alternative ways of thinking and perceiving, being and acting. It offers “transformative potential” towards WPC.
We draw from our diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the potential of VRE as a tool to facilitate WPC. Using specific examples from five research studies, this workshop will demonstrate the use of VRE in a variety of health care contexts. The contexts of the studies we draw from include: end of life care; autism diagnostics; infection control, and intensive care.
The workshop proceeds in four parts. We first invite you, the participant, to engage in a video reflexive event, where you are expected to reflect on the socio-interactive conduct that you produce as a group in response to a specific task. We then describe the process of VRE, outline its pedagogic and theoretical foundations, and present some examples from our research. We then invite questions about the theoretical basis and practical approach of VRE. Finally, participants will be asked to project a version of reflexive video onto their 'home' area of research, and reason about potential outcomes.
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