Through this hermeneutic study I sought to explicate the practice knowledge of nursing on residential adolescent mental health units. I did this by seeking to understand what nurse's and adolescent's stories of nursing, or being nursed, revealed about the knowledge informing practice within that context. Seven nurses and seven young people shared their experiences. Taped and written stories, and survey material, provided texts for analysis and interpretation. As stories centred around specific nurse-adolescent interactions they pointed to the knowledge informing practice within those encounters. Thus, practice knowledge was explicated through interpretation of the actual experiences of nurses and adolescents. Study findings were conceptualised as sub-elements, elements and a meta-element of practice knowledge. Ninety one
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/244838 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Geanellos, Rene, res.cand@acu.edu.au |
| Publisher | Australian Catholic University. School of Nursing and Human Movement |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | http://www.acu.edu.au/disclaimer.cfm, Copyright Rene Geanellos |
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