A Focused Ethnography of Baccalaureate Nursing Students Who Are Using Motivational Interviewing.
The purpose of this article is to describe how nursing students learned and used motivational interviewing (MI) in a community-based clinical context at a primary care vascular risk reduction clinic focused on health promotion.



A focused ethnography was used to access a sample of 20 undergraduate nursing students, 16 patients, and 2 instructors. Data were generated from participant observations, field notes, student journals, and interviews (one-on-one and focus group).



Central to the students' experience was their transformation because of learning and using MI. Three sub themes describe the social processes that shaped the student experience: learning a relational skill, engaging patients, and collaborating as partners.



It is feasible for nursing students to learn MI and use this approach to enhance collaborative care in a primary care setting. The experience can be transformative for students.



Supporting patients to adopt healthy lifestyles is a significant role for nurses in practice. The findings provide key insights and strategies for nurse educators teaching students a collaborative communication approach, such as MI, to engage patients in health behavior change.
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. lisa.howard@uleth.ca.
Lisa M
LM
Howard
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Beverly A
BA
Williams
D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D059017:Primary Care Nursing; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
Focused ethnography; motivational interviewing; nursing students; undergraduate education