Standing out on the margins: using dialogical narrative analysis to explore mental health student nurse identity construction and core modules

Buescher, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-6485 and McGugan, S, 2022. Standing out on the margins: using dialogical narrative analysis to explore mental health student nurse identity construction and core modules. Issues in Mental Health Nursing. ISSN 0161-2840

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Abstract

Literature and experience suggest that student mental health nurses feel marginalised in core modules. A focus group was held to explore mental health nurse students’ experiences of whole-cohort core modules in nursing. Students from a university in the North of England attended a one-hour focus group followed by dialogical narrative analysis of transcripts. Stories of shared professional identity, marginal status, critical thinking, and practical application of theory were shared by the group. Greater presence of mental health stakeholders earlier in the programme and more applied field specific teaching offer a means to bolster professional identity in mental health nursing students.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Creators:	Buescher, T. and McGugan, S.
Publisher:	Informa Healthcare
Date:	18 February 2022
ISSN:	0161-2840
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/01612840.2022.2037174 DOI 1512860 Other
Rights:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Issues in Mental Health Nursing on 18 February 2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01612840.2022.2037174
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	11 Mar 2022 09:52
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2023 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45856

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