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ArticleNursing open2021

Does professional identity play a critical role in the choice to remain in the nursing profession?

Margareth Kristoffersen

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Article in Nursing open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  2. From crisis to commitment: nursing students' sense of belonging during and immediately after the covid-19 pandemic.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026
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Margareth KristoffersenDepartment of Care and Ethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-0800-1169

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo explore aspects of professional identity in nurses' written narratives of what is significant to their choice to remain in the profession.

designThis study used a qualitative design and was underpinned by a hermeneutical approach.

methodsThe participants were recruited via purposive sampling procedures and included 13 nurses aged 26 to 62 years. The data were collected in the form of written narratives to initiate the nurses' reflections on the decision to remain in the profession. A thematic analysis was conducted.

resultsThe analysis revealed two themes: acting as a professional contributor and realigning to maintain professional belongingness. In the nurses' written narratives, these aspects of professional identity were clearly significant to their choice to remain in the profession. In a complexly interwoven way, the aspects constructed who the nurses were as professionals, and thus, professional identity seems to play a critical role in the choice to remain.

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Nursing StaffHumansNarrationNursingSocial Identificationcommunity of nursescompetenceprofessional identityqualitative methodremaining in the nursing professionwritten narratives

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PMID33715308
PMCPMC8186704

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