title: Interprofessional undergraduate students talk about nurses and nursing: A qualitative study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the discourse amongst a range of health professional students, including nursing, talking about nurses and nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative descriptive study which employed the use of focus groups.
  
  
  METHODS
  A rural and residential interprofessional immersion programme in a rural location in New Zealand. The participants were final year undergraduates drawn from seven different degrees (dentistry, dietetics, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy and physiotherapy).
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected from separate and sequential group interviews; each of which comprised a different mix of students and always included nursing students. Each student participated once. Data were analysed by comparing datum with datum until recurrent themes emerged.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The discourse in relation to nurses and nursing identified two overarching themes 'constrained conversations' and 'the benefit of IPE: what nursing might become'. Within those themes there were four contributing sub themes; 'nursing as doing', 'limiting our vocabulary', 'becoming part of the conversation 'and 'moving from the present to the future what nursing might become'.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The interprofessional experience for student nurses not only enabled them to learn about other professions but was a forum in which they were able to articulate the role of the nurse. This was an unintended and positive by-product of the IPE programme.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Eastern Institute of Technology, Private Bag 1201, Hawke's Bay Mail Centre, Napier 4142, New Zealand. Electronic address: ruth.crawford@paradise.net.nz.
authors.forename: Ruth M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.affiliation: University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. Electronic address: peter.gallagher@otago.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Eastern Institute of Technology, Private Bag 1201, Hawke's Bay Mail Centre, Napier 4142, New Zealand; Department of Health Sciences, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, PO Box 235, 3603 Kongsberg, Norway. Electronic address: tharding@eit.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harding
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago Wellington, Box 7343, Wellington South, 6242, New Zealand. Electronic address: eileen.mckinlay@otago.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Eileen M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: McKinlay
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago Wellington, Box 7343, Wellington South, 6242, New Zealand. Electronic address: sue.pullon@otago.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Susan R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Pullon
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009520:New Zealand; D024802:Nurse's Role; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013336:Students, Health Occupations / Q000523:psychology*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Interprofessional education; Nursing; Perceptions; Undergraduate