title: Serendipity. A focus group turned hermeneutic evaluation.
abstract: When a focus group exploring the influence of feminism on students' lives became a hermeneutic evaluation, we understood students' lived experience, gained a retrospective view of students' developing feminist voice, and learned how feminist education influenced students' personal and professional lives. Nurse educators in programs espousing phenomenological, practice-driven, dialogic education are encouraged to integrate hermeneutic evaluation strategies so faculty-student groups can make courses and curricula relevant and meaningful.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nursing, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: K T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Witt
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D017144:Focus Groups / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*