Nurse researcher identity and reflexivity in interpretive phenomenological analysis: a personal narrative

CONCLUSION: Nurses hold onto their professional identities as they transition into research, viewing the researcher identity as complementary to their initial clinical professional identity. This dual-professional identity connects healthcare and research, but also creates challenges for nurses, so should be given more attention.IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: More research is needed to examine the path from nurse to researcher and why nurses remain committed to their professional nurse identity. As nurse researchers are becoming commonplace in healthcare, research education programmes need to include strategies to help novice nurse researchers navigate the tensions between their nurse and researcher identities.PMID:37051820 | DOI:10.7748/nr.2023.e1870
Source: Nurse Researcher - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research