| Being different: a phenomenological exploration of a group of veteran psychiatric nurses. | |
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PMID: 20367650 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Concern regarding the low numbers of graduate nurses expressing interest in entering the psychiatric field leads to the question: who would be a psychiatric nurse? In this interpretative, phenomenological study, the lived experiences of seven veteran psychiatric nurses were examined in order to gain understanding of the reasons why they had remained in the field of psychiatric nursing. Each of these participants had more than 10 years' clinical practice in psychiatric nursing and shared a wide range of thoughts, memories, and experiences. The major emergent theme, 'being different', revealed what it is like for the participants being psychiatric nurses. These participants felt and saw themselves as different in many ways from other nurses and from society in general. Related to and an aspect of that difference was the high level of satisfaction they achieved from their role and the striving to achieve harmony. |
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Authors:
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Felicity Humble; Wendy Cross |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: International journal of mental health nursing Volume: 19 ISSN: 1447-0349 ISO Abbreviation: Int J Ment Health Nurs Publication Date: 2010 Apr |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-04-06 Completed Date: 2010-08-25 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101140527 Medline TA: Int J Ment Health Nurs Country: Australia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 128-36 Citation Subset: N |
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic. 3800, Australia. |
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Adult Career Choice* Female Humans Interview, Psychological Male Nurse's Role / psychology* Nurses / psychology* Psychiatric Nursing* Veterans / psychology* |
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