TY - JOUR
T1 - Resisting, reaching out and re-imagining to independence
T2 - LPN's transitioning towards BNs and beyond
AU - Melrose, Sherri
AU - Wishart, Paul M.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - Little is known about the process of how nurses transition between vocational training and institutions of higher education. Understanding this process provides educators with the knowledge to support new groups of university students making this transition. Grounded theory (GT) was used to explore and understand this process. Three studies from a 7-year research program were used as data. The analysis led to the generation of a GT illuminating the process of students transitioning from post-LPN to BN. This GT illustrates how students overcome difficulties encountered moving to a more complex nursing role. The students' main concern was a lack of independence. The core variable, which resolves this main concern, and which emerged from the analysis of the data is developing independence. There are three sub-core variables, resisting, reaching out and re-imagining which support this core variable of developing independence.
AB - Little is known about the process of how nurses transition between vocational training and institutions of higher education. Understanding this process provides educators with the knowledge to support new groups of university students making this transition. Grounded theory (GT) was used to explore and understand this process. Three studies from a 7-year research program were used as data. The analysis led to the generation of a GT illuminating the process of students transitioning from post-LPN to BN. This GT illustrates how students overcome difficulties encountered moving to a more complex nursing role. The students' main concern was a lack of independence. The core variable, which resolves this main concern, and which emerged from the analysis of the data is developing independence. There are three sub-core variables, resisting, reaching out and re-imagining which support this core variable of developing independence.
KW - Grounded theory
KW - Independence
KW - LPN to BN learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121160231&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/ijnes-2012-0033
DO - 10.1515/ijnes-2012-0033
M3 - Journal Article
C2 - 23735437
AN - SCOPUS:85121160231
VL - 10
SP - 107
EP - 113
JO - International journal of nursing education scholarship
JF - International journal of nursing education scholarship
IS - 1
ER -