title: The socialisation of nurses in clinical settings: a dual focus critique of a research study.
abstract: This is a two-pronged critique of a study of the socialisation of neophyte nurses in a neonatal intensive care unit in the USA. The authors, respectively an educationalist and a nurse researcher experienced in neonatal intensive care, agreed in finding that the study fell short of what it promised, but differed as to their reasons. They decided to publish their critiques as a complementary pair, in the hope that those supervising research students would benefit from seeing a disappointing study simultaneously in two perspectives, educational and clinical.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: McHaffie
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D009732:Nursing Care; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012951:Socialization