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Belongingness: a critique of the concept and implications for nursing education

Belongingness: a critique of the concept and implications for nursing education
Belongingness: a critique of the concept and implications for nursing education
Summary: Clinical experience is recognised as central to nursing education. Quality clinical placements across a range of venues are vital to the development of competent and confident professionals. However there is evidence, both empirical and anecdotal, suggesting that nursing students’ clinical placement experiences are often fraught with problems. These problems are long standing and multi-dimensional. For many students clinical placements are typified by feelings of alienation and a lack of belongingness. This paper proposes that the problematic nature of clinical placements may be better understood through the lens of ‘belongingness’. A critical review of selected studies drawn from the psychological and social science literature provides insight and useful direction for a more focused review of the nursing literature. The potential relationships between belongingness, nursing students, and their clinical placement experiences are then exemplified by excerpts taken from the nursing literature (including unpublished material). Finally, an ongoing study that seeks to address the paucity of empirical research in this area is highlighted.
belongingness, sense of belonging, nursing students, clinical placements
0260-6917
210-218
Levett-Jones, Tracy
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Lathlean, Judith
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Maguire, Jane
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McMillan, Margaret
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Levett-Jones, Tracy
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Maguire, Jane
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McMillan, Margaret
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Levett-Jones, Tracy, Lathlean, Judith, Maguire, Jane and McMillan, Margaret (2007) Belongingness: a critique of the concept and implications for nursing education. Nurse Education Today, 27 (3), 210-218. (doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2006.05.001).

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Summary: Clinical experience is recognised as central to nursing education. Quality clinical placements across a range of venues are vital to the development of competent and confident professionals. However there is evidence, both empirical and anecdotal, suggesting that nursing students’ clinical placement experiences are often fraught with problems. These problems are long standing and multi-dimensional. For many students clinical placements are typified by feelings of alienation and a lack of belongingness. This paper proposes that the problematic nature of clinical placements may be better understood through the lens of ‘belongingness’. A critical review of selected studies drawn from the psychological and social science literature provides insight and useful direction for a more focused review of the nursing literature. The potential relationships between belongingness, nursing students, and their clinical placement experiences are then exemplified by excerpts taken from the nursing literature (including unpublished material). Finally, an ongoing study that seeks to address the paucity of empirical research in this area is highlighted.

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Published date: April 2007
Keywords: belongingness, sense of belonging, nursing students, clinical placements

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Local EPrints ID: 45841
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45841
ISSN: 0260-6917
PURE UUID: 0ab38de5-0c19-4d7b-a2c4-d31364922c9c

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Date deposited: 16 Apr 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 09:13

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Author: Tracy Levett-Jones
Author: Judith Lathlean
Author: Jane Maguire
Author: Margaret McMillan

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