Developing professional identity in nursing academics: The role of communities of practice

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 607-611

  Andrew, Nicola ^a   Ferguson, Dorothy ^a   Wilkie, George ^a   Corcoran, Terry ^a   Simpson, Liz ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic identity; Communities of practice; Nursing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION, NURSING; FACULTY, NURSING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 67649206974     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Andrew N., Tolson D., and Ferguson D. Building on Wenger: communities of practice in nursing. Nurse Education Today 28 2 (2008) 246-252
2. Andrew N., and Wilkie G. Integrated scholarship in nursing: and individual responsibility or collective undertaking. Nurse Education Today 27 (2007) 1-4
3. Belbin R.M. Team Roles at Work (1993), Butterworth, Oxford, UK
4. Bligh M.C., Pearce C.L., and Kohles J.C. The importance of self- and shared leadership in team based knowledge work. Journal of Managerial Psychology 21 4 (2006) 296-318
5. Booth J., Tolson D., Hotchkiss R., and Schofield I. Using action research to construct national evidence-based nursing care guidance for gerontological nursing. Journal of Clinical Nursing 16 (2007) 945-953
6. Bohnsack R. Group discussion and focus groups. In: Flick U., Von Kardorff E., and Steinke I. (Eds). A Companion to Qualitative Research (2004), SAGE, London
7. Boyer E.L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (1990), Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, New Jersey
8. Buggy T., Andrew N., Tolson D., and Macgee M. Evaluation of a virtual practice development college for nurses. BCS, ITIN, British Journal of Computing 16 3 (2004) 4-8
9. Butler M., Treacy A., Scott A., Hyde P., MacNeela K., Irving A., Byrne A., and Drennan J. Towards a minimum data set for Ireland: making Irish nurses visible. Journal of Advanced Nursing 5 3 (2006) 364-375
10. Clark G., Healy M., Jenkins A., Wareham T., Chalkley B., Blumhof J., Gravestock P., Honeybone A., King H., and Thomas N. Developing new lecturers. Active Learning in Higher Education 3 2 (2002) 128-144
11. Diekelmann N. Experienced practitioners as new faculty: new pedagogies and new possibilities. Journal of Nursing Education 43 3 (2004) 101-103
12. Efimova, L., de Moor, A., 2005. Beyond personal web publishing: an exploratory study of conversational blogging practices. In: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 3-6. Available from: .
13. Fowler C.J.H., and Mayes J.T. Learning relationships; from theory to design. Association for Learning Technology 7 3 (1999) 6-16
14. Gabriel, Y., Griffiths, D.S. 2008. International learning groups: synergies and dysfunctions. Management Learning 39(5), 503-518.
15. Kennedy P.E. Using Monte Carlo studies for teaching econometrics. In: Becker W., and Watts M. (Eds). Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk (1998), E. Elgar, Cheltenham
16. Kenny G., Pontin D., and Moore L. Negotiating socialisation: the journey of novice nurse academics into higher education. Nurse Education Today 24 8 (2004) 629-637
17. Lai, K.W., Pratt, K., Anderson, M., Stigter, J., 2006. Literature review and synthesis: online communities of practice. Ministry of Education, New Zealand. Available from: .
18. Lave J., and Wenger E. Situated Learning, Legitimate Peripheral Participation (1991), University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge
19. Luby T. Developing professional knowledge within a community of practice: questions for Scottish teachers for a new era. Education in the North 14 (2006/7) 24-31
20. Mangold, W., 1960. Gegenstand und Methode des Gruppendiskussionsverfahrens Frankfurt a. M.: Europaische Verlagsanstalt.
21. McArthur-Rouse F. From expert to novice: an exploration of the experiences of new academic staff to a department of adult nursing studies. Nurse Education Today 28 (2008) 401-408
22. McNamara M.S. Of bedpans and ivory towers. Nurse academics identities and the sacred and profane: a Bernsteinian analysis and discussion paper. International Journal of Nursing Studies 45 3 (2008) 458-470
23. McNeil M. From nurse to teacher: recognizing a status passage. Journal of Advanced Nursing 25 3 (1997) 634-642
24. Miers M. Nurse education in higher education; understanding cultural barriers to progress. Nurse Education Today 22 (2002) 212-219
25. Scott D.S. New professionalism - shifting relationships between nursing education and nursing practice. Nurse Education Today 28 (2008) 240-245
26. Snyder, W., 1997. Communities of practice: combining organisational learning and strategy insights to create a bridge to the 21st century. Available from: .
27. Standish P. Disciplining the profession: subjects subject to procedure. Educational Philosophy and Theory 34 1 (2002) 5-23
28. Thompson D.R., and Watson R. Academic nursing - what is happening to it and where is it going. Journal of Advanced Nursing 36 1 (2001) 1-2
29. Thompson D.R. Professors of nursing: what do they profess?. Nurse Education in Practice 6 (2006) 123-126
30. Watson R., and Thompson D.R. The trojan horse of nurse education. Nurse Education Today 24 (2004) 73-75
31. Wenger E. Communities of Practice. Learning Meaning and Identity. sixth ed. (1998), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
32. Wenger E., McDermott R., and Snyder W. A Guide to Managing Knowledge. Cultivating Communities of Practice (2002), Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts