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Date: | 2016 |
Abstract: | Aim: To understand how nursing students at the end of their nursing education view nursing care. Background: Although care is understood as the essence of nursing, it is often difficult for nurses to provide care, which demonstrates a contradiction between theory and practice. Moreover, it is unknown to what extent this contradiction is transmitted to future nursing professionals or how they view nursing care and its practice. Design: Qualitative ethnographic research. Methods: The fieldwork was conducted between December 2010 - May 2012 in a university nursing school in Barcelona and two centres where students carry out most of their practical education. The data collection techniques were participant observation and focus groups. A thematic analysis was used. Results: The students demonstrated contradictory views of nursing care. On one hand, they voiced a more theoretical, official definition where care is considered the core of the profession. On the other hand, they also expressed a view where the provision of care is not nurses' principal daily activity, a fact that did not surprise them. Students interpreted caring as an activity that has low value and that can be transferred unproblematically to other professionals. Conclusion: The contradictory views of care reveal a problem in the transmission of the definition of nursing to new generations of professionals and reflect a problematic professional reality where there is dissonance between how nursing is defined and how it is carried out in practice. |
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Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
Subject: | Care ; Caring; ; Delegation ; Nurses ; Nursing ; Nursing education research ; Qualitative research ; Students, Nursing |
Published in: | Journal of advanced nursing, Vol. 73 Num. 2 (February 2017) , p. 410-420, ISSN 0309-2402 |
Post-print. Versió acceptada 2016 27 p, 281.3 KB |
Taula 1 1 p, 54.8 KB |
Taula 2 1 p, 72.7 KB |