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- Title
Diffuse instruction content makes for a diffuse professional identity.
- Authors
Eriksen TR; Samson D; Vinberg L
- Abstract
The object of the article is to describe how student nurses' life history-related care qualifications are handled during their nursing education and to examine the content in their instruction related to the nursing profession.The approach to the survey is social-scientific. The empirical material was collected via classroom re-search consisting of 15 observations and recordings of the instruction of three classes of a random group of student nurses in their second semester of the professional bachelor nursing education.The material forms part of the construction of a nursing lesson: nursing the elderly. The construction indicates the establishment of a diffuse identity as a nurse, which manifests itself as a reproduction of the established educational structure, i.e. that nursing the elderly is treated a linguistic task rather than one relating to actions. The teaching processes alternate between having a rational character and a life-historic, emotional character, always within a framework of specific academic demands on the nursing profession.
- Publication
Danish Journal of Nursing / Sygeplejersken, 2008, Vol 108, Issue 17, p56
- ISSN
0106-8350
- Publication type
Journal Article