title: Reading nursing: the burden of being different.
abstract: The data on which this paper is based were collected by means of informal interviews with final year nursing undergraduates at one university. From students' accounts it is apparent that the lives of undergraduate nurses are dominated by an all embracing feeling of 'difference'. This paper centres on the theme of 'difference' and draws upon the literature from the field of disablement in an attempt to explain the position of undergraduate nurses.
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006113:United Kingdom