Autobiography of student nurse internships summer 2015
Autobiography of student nurse internships summer 2015
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I am only a nurse: a biographical narrative study of a nurse’s self-understanding and its implication for practice
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BMC Nursingvolume 14, Article number: 23 (2015) Cite this article
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Abstract
Background
The personal is a vital part of professional nursing practice.
From a psycho-social perspective, nurses produce and reproduce conceptions of the Self through experience. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate personal and professional experiences that may have formed the self-understanding of a nurse, and how this self-understanding may have influenced her professional practice.
Methods
Using a single case approach, I conducted a Biographical Narrative Interview with a 50-year-old experienced Norwegian nurse.
I asked the nurse to tell me the story of her life and how her work has affected her and possibly changed the way she saw herself. The overall aim of the int