Being in the middle : registered nurses' experiences of parent hospitalisation

Abstract

Registered nurses (RNs) have a dual identity: professionally they are health practitioners and privately they are family members. This qualitative study described and interpreted the experiences of RN sons and daughters in their role as a relative of their hospitalised parent. RNs' experiences of parent hospitalisation revealed the boundaries of these two identities within the hospitalisation context, the circumstances under which the boundaries became blurred or disappeared (which caused identity conflict and role confusion) and the impact of this on participants.

Date of Award	2010
Original language	English