title: Shadowing in Early Baccalaureate Nursing Education and Its Influence on Professional Role Perspectives.
abstract: Nursing students often experience a discrepancy between their ideal views of nursing obtained while in school and the realities of practice. Using a phenomenological research design, sophomore-level students reflected on their perceptions of the professional nursing role before and after shadowing a nurse. Students' perceptions changed from a focus of the nurse as the primary caregiver in a hierarchy to a broader understanding of the complexity of nursing and what it means to care.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliation: Full-Time Lecturer, College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, North Dartmouth.
authors.forename: Monika S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Schuler
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D011231:Preceptorship; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States