The knowledgeable practice of critical care nurses: a poststructural inquiry (original) (raw)

International journal of nursing studies, 2008

Abstract

Contemporary nursing literature emphasises the desirability of clinical nurses being "knowledgeable". However, the need for nurses constantly to acquire more knowledge is reiterated. Lack of knowledge is seen to underlie an array of professional problems. Little is known of how nurses themselves understand what it means to practise knowledgeably. To explore critical care nurses' understandings of knowledgeable practice and its relationship to being a "good nurse". A poststructuralist framework informed the study. The study participants were 12 critical care nurses. Data were generated through three individual focused interviews with each participant. Data analysis involved deconstruction of the interview texts to reveal participants' discourses of knowledgeable practice and the implications of these discourses for their subjectivity and for their work. A discourse of knowledgeable practice was revealed as central to participants' sense of identity as ...

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