1. The nursing students journey in constructing a professional identity. A longitudinal qualitative study Theresa Pengelly Senior Lecturer in Children and Young People’s Nursing Coventry University PhD student /University of Worcester theresa.pengelly@coventry.ac.uk

2. Supervisory Team Dr Janice Clarke, Senior Lecturer : Allied Health Sciences. University of Worcester Professor Dominic Upton, Associate Head: Academic Delivery. University of Worcester

3. Aims of Presentation Discuss the background of the Research Study Explain the Research Design and Methods Apply the Research Study to Practice

4. Professional Status of Nursing Professional Status of Nursing

5. Professional Identity in Nursing Knowing who you are as a professional and how you fit into the health care organisation, your professional identity is an integral part of being in a profession. Johnson et al ( 2012)

6. Professional Identity in Nursing Secrest at al (2003) and Morris and Faulk (2007) undertook surveys. Johnson et al(2012) used a quantitative approach.

7. Research Question and Aim What are the factors within a pre registration programme that contribute towards the construction of a professional identity? To critically examine how nursing students develop a professional identity over their three year training period

8. Longitudinal Study From to generates a product of change From through outlines the process of change Life epiphanies Meticulous Approach to handling of data Care of participants Saldana (2003)

9. Research Design Longitudinal Qualitative Hermeneutic Phenomenology Bronfenbrenner’s Model of Human Development (1979) Ethical Approval

10. Research Methods Purposive Sample Maximum – 30 nursing students Adult, Child, Mental Health Online questionnaire – Year One

11. Research Methods Semi- Structured interviews Year One and Two Unstructured interviews Year Three Online ( individual) blog Year Two onwards

12. Online Questionnaire so far Feeling like a Nurse Always x Sometimes Occasionally x Never x

13. Next stage of Data Collection Micro- system The experience of being on placement and of attending theory modules Meso- system The student’s experience of their relationship with mentors, personal and module tutors Exo – system The students perception of the influence of regulatory bodies and trust policies Macro – system The student’s viewpoint of how nurses are perceived in society

14. Future Challenges Retaining Participants Capturing true experiences Ensuring Blog Data is relevant

15. Thank You Thank You for listening

16. References References Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979) The Ecology of Human Development.Experiments by Nature and Design. Cambridge. Harvard University Press Johnson, M., Cowin, L.S.,Wilson, I., Young, H. (2012) Professional Identity and Nursing : contemporary theoretical developments and future research challenges. International Nursing Review.59 :562-569 Morris, A. and Faulk, D. (2007 ) Perspective transformation: Enhancing the development of professionalism in RN to BSN students. Journal of Nursing Education.46 (10) 445-452 Saldana, J. (2003) Longitudinal Qualitative Research. Analyzing change through time. Maryland. Rowan and Littlefield Publishers.