Intellectual development and research: student nurses' and student midwives' accounts.
The way in which student nurses and midwives experience research in practice is described here through accounts from in-depth interviews with 10 student midwives and nine student nurses while they were in the rostered service component of their pre-registration diploma courses. Also reported here is an impressionistic model of their intellectual development in relation to research which has been created inductively from the same data and which offer a new line of inquiry on the research to practice problem. Although this research is primarily concerned with these particular students it is of general interest since there may be a level of intellectual development which is a necessary condition to being able to initiate and use research in practice.
MacVicar
M H
MH
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bell College of Technology, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods