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Reflexivity in Nursing Practice: Journeying with Qualitative Research as a Mode of Nursing Inquiry 18-19 November 2010, Iloilo City, Philippines
In November 2010 I attended the 3rd PNRS Research Conference were I had the honour to present a plenary session, 'Research and a critical poststructuralist paradigm'. Building upon the success of the previous two conferences in 2008 and 2009, this conference had an explicit aim to create a forum for exploring the world of qualitative research in nursing and health care practice for emerging nurse researchers in the Philippines.
At this interesting, wide-ranging and culturally rich event 240 delegates from throughout the Philippines were bolstered by the presence of the academic staff of the host organisation the College of Nursing, West Visayas State University. As well, a large group of fourth year undergraduate nursing students, not just from the local College of Nursing, also attended. As part of their final year they undertake a research project; many were displayed as posters and five gave oral presentations of their projects during one of the concurrent sessions.
On the first day of the conference the delegates were welcomed, in speech and song, and the invited keynote and plenary speakers were formally introduced. The keynote speech was delivered by Professor Fatima Castillo, who holds a Chair in Social Sciences at the University of the Philippines, Manila. Her erudite and wide-ranging introduction to qualitative research as a mode of enquiry touched upon reflexivity, gender...