Theresa Pengelly Senior Lecturer in Children and Young People’s Nursing

1. The nursing students journey in constructing a professional identity. A longitudinal qualitative study Theresa Pengelly Senior Lecturer in Children and Young People’s Nursing Coventry University PhD student /University of Worcester theresa.pengelly@coventry.ac.uk

2. Supervisory Team • Dr Janice Clarke , Senior Lecturer : Allied Health Sciences. University of Worcester • Professor Dominic Upton, Associate Head: Academic Delivery. University of Worcester

3. Aims of Presentation • Discuss the background of the Research Study • Explain the Research Design and Methods • Apply the Research Study to Practice

4. Professional Status of Nursing

5. Professional Identity in Nursing • Knowing who you are as a professional and how you fit into the health care organisation, your professional identity is an integral part of being in a profession. Johnson et al ( 2012)

6. Professional Identity in Nursing Secrest at al (2003) and Morris and Faulk (2007) undertook surveys. Johnson et al(2012) used a quantitative approach .

7. Research Question and Aim What are the factors within a pre registration programme that contribute towards the construction of a professional identity? To critically examine how nursing students develop a professional identity over their three year training period

8. Longitudinal Study • From to generates a product of change • From through outlines the process of change • Life epiphanies • Meticulous Approach to handling of data • Care of participants Saldana (2003)

9. Research Design • Longitudinal • Qualitative • Hermeneutic Phenomenology • Bronfenbrenner’s Model of Human Development (1979) • Ethical Approval

10. Research Methods • Purposive Sample • Maximum – 30 nursing students • Adult, Child , Mental Health • Online questionnaire – Year One

11. Research Methods • Semi- Structured interviews Year One and Two • Unstructured interviews Year Three • Online ( individual) blog Year Two onwards

12. Online Questionnaire so far • Feeling like a Nurse • Always x • Sometimes • Occasionally x • Never x

13. Next stage of Data Collection • Micro- system • The experience of being on placement and of attending theory modules • Meso- system • The student’s experience of their relationship with mentors, personal and module tutors • Exo – system • The students perception of the influence of regulatory bodies and trust policies • Macro – system • The student’s viewpoint of how nurses are perceived in society

14. Future Challenges • Retaining Participants • Capturing true experiences • Ensuring Blog Data is relevant

15. Thank You • Thank You for listening

16. References Bronfenbrenner , U. (1979) The Ecology of Human Development .Experiments by Nature and Design. Cambridge. Harvard University Press Johnson, M., Cowin, L.S.,Wilson, I., Young, H. (2012) Professional Identity and Nursing : contemporary theoretical developments and future research challenges. International Nursing Review.59 :562-569 Morris, A. and Faulk, D. (2007 ) Perspective transformation: Enhancing the development of professionalism in RN to BSN students . Journal of Nursing Education.46 (10) 445-452 Saldana , J. (2003) Longitudinal Qualitative Research. Analyzing change through time . Maryland. Rowan and Littlefield Publishers.