The mentor's tale: a reflexive account of semi-structured interviews.
In this article, Helen Hand provides an account of personal experience as a novice researcher collecting data using semi-structured interviews. The data were collected as part of a study involving nurse mentors who had had the experience of mentoring and subsequently failing a student nurse. The paper emphasises the importance of reflexivity as a method of signposting to the reader 'what is going on' in the research process. In conclusion, it is suggested that creating the 'joint account' is a complex but worthwhile task, but that great skill is required by the researcher in order to participate in the construction of reality.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, UK.
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D004506:Education, Nursing; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008611:Mentors; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research