Epistemic discourses concerning the competence developed in a norwegian master's degree program in health science.

It has been claimed that various discourses related to competence influence higher education, but there is limited understanding of the discourses underlying competence development. The specific aim of this study was to explore epistemic discourses concerning the development of competence of health professionals with a master's degree in health science. Accordingly, the study was qualitative and adopted discourse analysis.

What school nurses receive for themselves that influences their remaining in practice: A qualitative study.

Background: Previous research indicates a link between what nurses receive for themselves and their remaining in practice. In Norway, school nurses tend to remain in practice, but what it is they receive for themselves has been scarcely studied. The aim of this study, therefore, was to describe and interpret what it is school nurses receive for themselves that influences their remaining in practice.

What school nurses strive to achieve for themselves in order to remain in practice: A qualitative study.

Aim: This study aims to describe and interpret what it is school nurses strive to achieve for themselves in order to remain in practice.

Design: A qualitative study with a hermeneutic approach.

Method: The data were collected by means of in-depth interviews with 15 Norwegian school nurses on two separate occasions and analysed using a phenomenological hermeneutic method.

Solidarity in a Community of Nursing Colleagues.

Introduction: Several concepts have been used to describe the qualities of communities of nursing colleagues. Nonetheless, few studies have shed light on nursing communities by drawing on the concept of solidarity.

Objective: To explore solidarity among a community of nursing colleagues.

Does professional identity play a critical role in the choice to remain in the nursing profession?

Aim: To explore aspects of professional identity in nurses' written narratives of what is significant to their choice to remain in the profession.

Design: This study used a qualitative design and was underpinned by a hermeneutical approach.

Methods: The participants were recruited via purposive sampling procedures and included 13 nurses aged 26 to 62 years.

Self-realisation-What does this mean for school nurses to remain in nursing practice?

Aims And Objectives: To describe and interpret what it means for school nurses to realise themselves so that they remain in nursing practice.

Background: Self-realisation seems to influence on nurses remaining in nursing practice. School nurses report aspects (i.

Norwegian PhD students' discourses about practice-relevant research in the field of health and social work.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the discourses of PhD students concerning the performance of practice-relevant research in health and social work.

Design: An explorative, qualitative design and a discourse analytical approach were used to collect data.

Methods: Participants were recruited from a national research school for practice-relevant research in Norway.

Nurses' Remaining in Everyday Nursing Practice-A Comprehensive Model.

Previous theoretical and empirical models of nurses' remaining in everyday nursing practice are explained by elements such as intent to stay and desire to stay. This study provides a model that expands or expresses an increased understanding of the comprehensiveness of the issue by pointing to the qualitative worth of different desires. The aim of this study is to describe a comprehensive model of nurses' remaining in everyday nursing practice.

Thoughts of creation and the discipline of nursing.

Aim: The aim is to highlight thoughts of creation as a significant fundamental of the nursing discipline. This is achieved by exploring thoughts of creation in relation to everyday nursing care.

Design: This study, based on a hermeneutical approach, provides reused data drawn from a larger Norwegian empirical study.

Reconfiguring clinical communication in the electronic counselling context: The nuances of disruption.

Aim: This study expands on an earlier study about diabetes nurses' experiences of the Guided Self-Determination intervention in face-to-face consultations among people with type 2 diabetes. This current study investigates Guided Self-Determination in an electronic format with the aim to explore what can be learned about the written form for health communication from the perspectives of diabetes nurses in primary care.

Design: The study has an explorative, qualitative design.

Problematizing Boundaries of Care Responsibility in Caring Relationships.

Introduction: Nursing care takes place within nurse-patient relationships that can be demanding. In exceptional circumstances, the relationship may be destructive, and when this happens, significant onerous demands, appeals, or challenges can arise from patients and be placed upon nurses.

Aim: The aim is to explore what can be termed boundaries of care responsibility when relationships with patients place significant destructive demands on nurses.

Remaining in the nursing profession: The relevance of strong evaluations.

Background:: Why nurses remain in the profession is a complex question. However, strong values can be grounds for their remaining, meaning nurses evaluate the qualitative worth of different desires and distinguish between senses of what is a good life.

Research Question:: The overall aim is to explore and argue the relevance of strong evaluations for remaining in the nursing profession.

Relationship-based nursing care and destructive demands.

Background: The relationship between the nurse and the patient is understood as fundamental in nursing care. However, numerous challenges can be related to the provision of relationship-based nursing care. Challenges exist when nurses do not respond adequately to the patient's appeal for help.

The nursing discipline and self-realization.

Background: It is obvious from literature within the nursing discipline that nursing is related to moral or moral-philosophical related ideas which are other-oriented. The socio-cultural process of change in modern society implies that more self-oriented ideas have been found to be significant.

Aim: The overall aim of this article is to highlight self-oriented moral or moral-philosophical related ideas as an important part of the nursing discipline.