title: Storytelling: what can it reveal about the knowledge of mental health nursing?
abstract: This paper uses a hermeneutic approach to examine nurses' stories as found in the literature. It raises epistemological issues surrounding questions of nursing knowledge: practical and theoretical. By examining nurses' stories holistically and selectively, the study uses a combined approach to interpretation and theme development, revealing issues, questions and themes generated by the hermeneutic process. The author suggests that revealing knowledge in this manner can support the knowledge claims of mental health nursing and provide opportunities for theory development or testing.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Sydney, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Geanellos
mesh_terms: D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D019359:Knowledge; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing