A Narrative in Search of a Methodology

Treloar, Anna; Stone, Teresa Elizabeth; McMillan, Margaret; Flakus, Kirstin

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“…A case study methodology was chosen after consideration of other possible methodologies (Treloar et al . ). This methodology was sufficiently flexible for the project and also lent itself well to the project.…”

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Nursing in an imperfect world: Storytelling as preparation for mental health nursing practice

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McMillan

Stone

2016

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Storytelling is a valuable adjunctive method of preparing undergraduate mental health nursing students for practice. To explore the possibilities of this method of teaching, 100 stories were collected from experienced nurses working in mental health and analysed using a case study methodology. The aim was to explore the purpose of clinical anecdotes told by experienced nurses working in mental health settings to undergraduates and new recruits, with an ancillary purpose of looking at the implications of these anecdotes for the exploration of contemporary mental health practice and education. A framework for student discussion of stories is provided. The insights gained illuminate not only the history of mental health nursing and the daily activities of nurses working in mental health, but also some of the deep-level skills developed and used by these nurses as they work in the complexity and ambiguity of an imperfect world where the job requires managing the unexpected every shift, and where there might not always be a textbook-perfect solution to clinical situations.

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Nursing in an imperfect world: Storytelling as preparation for mental health nursing practice

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McMillan

Stone

2016

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…The contribution that the stories make to enhanced practice and education had not been fully explicated. Case study methodology was selected as the most useful design for the research (Treloar, Stone, McMillan & Flakus, 2015).…”

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Workshops and data collection: Ways to embed clinical complexity in learning events

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J Probl Based Learn

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Objectives: i) To explicate the constructivist nature of workshop processes to assist participants in the development of stories that are meaningful for educational purposes; ii) to position problem/practice-based learning (PBL) activities within constructivist theory. iii) to explore the construction and potential value of clinical anecdotes told by nurses to others new to the discipline of mental health nursing.Methods: Three workshops were held, both to collect stories, and to record insights from two groups of experienced mental health nurses, and one group of undergraduates close to registration, about how the stories could be interpreted and the purpose of telling selected stories to newcomers to the discipline. Case study methodology was used for exploration of these stories because this is a flexible approach often used in educational research. It is particularly suitable where the question is "how?" or "why?" and the components of a case study are people, things, events, contexts and relationships, components which are suitable for analysis of stories about mental health nursing.results: Stories (n=100) were collected directly from mental health nurses during and after the workshops as well as a few previously published sources; these were analysed for their fitness for educational purposes. The stories fell into three main groups, the first at the surface level, dealing with the history of mental health nursing and providing examples of mental health nurse humour; the middle level offering a variety of insights into daily work in mental health nursing whether in the hospital, the community, the prison or other setting, and the deepest level stories showed the attitudes and skills developed by experienced mental health nurses.conclusions: Thoughtful structuring and facilitation of the workshops was critical to the data collection process. The clinical anecdotes collected capture much which is not contained in textbooks and those depicting deeper appreciation of the specialty, better equip students to enter the real world of mental health nursing, where not everything is predictable and orderly, and where "inspired creativity" is often required and shown to manage difficult situations. The analysis of storylines demonstrates that the manner in which one conceptualizes practice has the potential to impact on learning outcomes for a new generation of mental health nurses who work in novel contexts of practice.

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A Narrative in Search of a Methodology

Abstract: Case study is frequently used in educational research and is sufficiently flexible to allow for an exploration of the phenomenon.

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Nursing in an imperfect world: Storytelling as preparation for mental health nursing practice

Nursing in an imperfect world: Storytelling as preparation for mental health nursing practice

Workshops and data collection: Ways to embed clinical complexity in learning events

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