Nurse academics’ identities and contribution to the clinical practice
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Nurse academics identities and contributions to the clinical practice environment: An Appreciative Inquiry
IRAS ID
195339
Contact name
Clare E M Corness-Parr
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Wolverhampton
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 1 days
Research summary
Aim: To explore the identities of nurse academics and contributions to the clinical practice environment, through a process of appreciative inquiry with nurse academics and nurses in practice.
Objectives:
1. To explore the nursing identities of a group of nurse academics who are engaged in a re-formed academic clinical practice team, from the perspectives of nurse academics and nurses in practice.2. To explore how nurse academics perceive their contributions to the clinical practice environment, from an emancipatory perspective.
3. To understand how nurses in practice perceive the contributions of nurse academics- to the clinical practice environment.
4. To elicit any blocking or enabling factors that are likely to impact on nurse academics contributions to the clinical practice environment.
Appreciative inquiry methodology will be employed to draw out implications for future practice on the basis of the aim and objectives. On the basis of interviews, and focus groups using theme boards with nurse academics and nurses in practice,the intention is to co-create a draft manifesto of recommendations, in order to help develop practice guidence in relation to the contributions that nurse academics can make to the clinical practice environment.
In September 2014, the academic practice team within the Higher Education Institution was expanded and re-formed, so all adult nurse academics could engage more directly in the practice environment and share the role mainly in the support of students, mentors and monitoring quality processes in practice. The literature suggests nurse academics have appeared ostracised and lacking confidence in their own identity due to factors which relate to complexities of identity and nursing (Leiff 2012, Monrouxe 2010 McNamara 2008), paternalism within the academy (Glass, 2005, Meerabeau 2005). Researching how nurse academics view their professional identity and perceive their contribution to clinical practice, will help to develop practice guidance.
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