title: Critical incidents in nursing academics: discovering a new identity.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  a qualitative study that followed the principles of the grounded theory in order to analyze the professional identity of nursing academics through the analysis of the most disturbing critical incidents.
  
  
  METHODS
  semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven nurses who worked as professors and researchers in a private university in Barcelona.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the resulting empirical material was organized into two categories: characterization of critical incidents and responsiveness to the incident.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the professional identity of nurses regarding the academic area is still under construction and inexperience is the major obstacle in the management of critical incidents in the teaching career.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Doctorado en Psicología de la Educación, Faculdad de Psicología, Universidad Ramón Llull, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Mariela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aguayo-González
authors.affiliation: Programa de Doctorado en Psicología de la Educación, Faculdad de Psicología, Universidad Ramón Llull, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castelló-Badía
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicologia Básica, Evolutiva y de la Educación, Faculdad de Psicologia, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Carles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Monereo-Font
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D007063:Identity Crisis; D015399:Nursing Research