title: Becoming an A & E nurse.
abstract: This is the first of four papers which examine the work of Accident and Emergency (A & E) nurses. The descriptions in this and the following three papers have emerged from an ethnomethodological study which sought to obtain the views of what A & E nurses believed their work to be. All are rooted in nurses' accounts of the ways in which nursing work is talked about and accomplished within the A & E setting. It should be noted that all four papers describe the ordinary rather than the extraordinary and should hold no surprises for those familiar with A & E nursing work. This first paper explores the ways in which nurses become A & E nurses, however, before descriptions can be put forward, an introduction to the study from which they have emerged needs to be made.
authors.affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Health Studies, UK.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Sbaih
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002321:Career Choice; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*