Researchers from Southern Cross University Report on Findings in Life Science (A Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Nursing In the National Disability Insurance Scheme Pricing Guide and Eligibility Criteria): Life Science

2023 APR 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Life Science have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Lismore, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is conceptually grounded in the social model of disability, which focuses on removing disabling structures of society to allow people with disabilities full participation and improved quality of life. The social model rests on a dichotomous rela-tionship against a medical model and its focus on treating impairments, and incorrectly places nursing within this paradigm.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Southern Cross University, “To undertake a discourse analysis of nursing as represented in the NDIS pricing guide and eligibility criteria, and to understand how the profession is conceptualised and valued within the scheme. Informed by Lauclau and Mouffe’s poststructuralist theory, a discourse analysis of the floating signifier of nursing against the dominant nodal point of the social model of disability was undertaken through a close reading of the NDIS pricing guide and eligibility criteria. The nursing scope of practice is confined to physical/medicalised supports for people with disabilities. Nursing is excluded from offering therapeutic and behaviour supports and is structured and fiscally valued differently to other professions. Despite its base in holistic and person-centred care, due to its conceptualisation within the medical model, the full scope of nursing practice is restrictive within the NDIS. This misarticulation of nursing excludes key aspects of adaptive, therapeutic, and holistic practice which can improve health outcomes for people with disabilities.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The NDIS in its conceptual construction based on the social model of disability has upheld a vision of nursing inconsistent with practice relevant to caring for people with disabilities.(.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: A Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Nursing In the National Disability Insurance Scheme Pricing Guide and Eligibility Criteria. Collegian, 2023;30(1):127-133. Collegian can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Collegian - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/collegian/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Amy Pracilio, Southern Cross University, Faculty of Health and Human Science, Pob 157, Lismore, Nsw, Australia. Additional authors for this research include Michelle Kersten, Andrew Cashin, Nathan J. Wilson and Julian N. Trollor.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2022.08.007. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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