Narrative Inquiry into the Professional Identity-Making of Ghanaian Midwives.

Professional identity-making is a complex life-making endeavor that is shaped by both the personal and professional knowledge landscapes in which people live and work. Using narrative inquiry, four midwives who had worked in diverse contexts in Ghana were purposively selected. We highlight how midwives' experiences across time, place, and in diverse contexts shape their professional identity-making.

Waiting as Performative and Relational: A Narrative Inquiry Study Into the Experiences of Women Who Use Substances.

Background And Purpose: The act of waiting in health care is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide. Waiting in health care is not a neutral activity; it is filled with expectations marked by cultural and social norms. In this article, we consider the performative nature of waiting by reflecting on the experiences of two participants in a narrative inquiry study.

The necessity and possibilities of playfulness in narrative care with older adults.

For us, narrative care is grounded in pragmatist philosophy and focused on experience. Narrative care is not merely about acknowledging or listening to people's experiences, but draws attention to practical consequences. We conceptualize care itself as an intrinsically narrative endeavour.

A Narrative Care approach for persons living with dementia in institutional care settings.

Aims And Objectives: We will provide insights in the theoretical background and key concepts of a Narrative Care approach, such as narrative cultures, narrative curiosity, narrative co-composition and narrative reflective practice.

Background: Care understood as narrative practice underscores the importance of experiences and how these shape identities. Important to the quality of care in institutional care settings is the ability of care providers to cope with complexities and uncertainties in older adults' stories, which can be realised by attending to ways that foster and co-compose evolving and forward-looking narratives.

Narrative inquiry: a relational research methodology for medical education.

Context: Narrative research, an inclusive term for a range of methodologies, has rapidly become part of medical education scholarship.

Concepts: In this paper we identify narrative inquiry as a particular theoretical and methodological framework within narrative research and outline its characteristics. We briefly summarise how narrative research has been used in studying medical learners' identity making in medical education.