ABSTRACT

This qualitative study explores novice nurse academics’ experiences and perceptions of academic identity formation through the theoretical lens of space. We analyse the data from four participants through semi-structured interviews, supplemented with information from demographic questionnaires and career incident maps. Our analysis shows a dual, inter-reliant, tension-filled and on-going process of identity construction – the formation of an academic identity and the reinvention of a clinical identity. This identity construction happens when the nurse academics move back and forth between academic and clinical spaces and is manifested in the emergence of the nurse academic identity. Findings reveal shifts within nursing as a profession and an academic discipline. To conclude, we suggest a contextualised approach to academic identity research to recognise the variability and complexity of academic identities (and spaces) in universities and the need to facilitate clinical engagement in the academic spaces of nursing to foster academic identity formation.

摘要

这项定性研究通过空间的理论视角探讨了新护士学者的经验和对学术身份形成的看法。我们通过半结构化访谈分析了四名参与者的数据，并辅以人口调查问卷和职业事件地图的信息。我们的分析显示了身份建构的双重、相互依赖、充满紧张和持续的过程——学术身份的形成和临床身份的重塑。当护士学者在学术和临床空间之间来回移动时，就会发生这种身份建构，并表现为护士学者的出现身份。调查结果揭示了护理作为一种职业和学科的转变。总之，我们建议对学术身份研究采用情境化方法，以认识到大学学术身份（和空间）的可变性和复杂性，以及促进临床参与护理学术空间以促进学术身份形成的必要性。