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‘Effective’ Australian gerontology nurses: a repertory grid analysis
Author(s) -
RETSAS ANDREW,
WILSON JANICE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1997.tb00315.x
Subject(s) - repertory grid , gerontological nursing , perception , psychology , nursing , personal construct theory , construct (python library) , variety (cybernetics) , medicine , social psychology , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
Summary• Repertory grids were completed by gerontological nurses ( N = 60) to elicit the personal constructs they used to characterize gerontological nurses, effective gerontological nurses and the extent to which participants believed themselves to be effective as nurses working in this specialist field. • Analysis of pooled repertory grids indicated that the personal construct ‘caring, compassionate, empathetic’ was rated most highly as characteristic of gerontological nurses in general and of effective gerontological nurses. • Cluster analysis of individual repertory grids showed no significant difference between self‐perceptions of participants as effective gerontological nurses and the ideal gerontological nurses they would like to become. • Other findings of this research indicate that a variety of aspects of gerontological nursing need improvement if negative perceptions of this area of nursing practice are to be altered.