1st Edition

Becoming a Nurse A Hermeneutic Study of the Experiences of Student Nurses on a Project 2000 Course

By Theresa Mitchell Copyright 2017
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2002: Presenting revealing insights into the structure and functioning of the Project 2000 courses, this book examines the original, creative and evolutionary research processes which led to the identification of student nurses’ unique and common experiences, and portrays the learning milieu in which students developed a self-concept of being a nurse. Employing... Read more
Contents: Modality and Motivation: Introduction. Philosophical and Methodological Foundations: Informing philosophies; Methodology - processes, praxis and ponderances. Contexts and Significant Others: Perceptions of tutors and practitioners; My emerging selves. Being and Becoming a Nurse: ’Mystories (1)’; Intentionality - comportment toward nursing and the course; Experiences of thrownness; Being-in-the-world-with-others; Temporality - being a student, being a nurse; Becoming an ’active subject’; Mystories (2). Discussion and Emergent Issues: Considerations, contributions and closure; Appendices; References; Bibliography.

Biography

Theresa Mitchell, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK