Reflexivity

Journal of Research in Nursing - Tập 11 Số 2 - Trang 147-157 - 2006
Anne Arber1
1European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Duke of Kent Building, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Tóm tắt

In this article I focus on what it means to have a dual identity as a practitioner and a researcher within an ethnographic research study in the context of a hospice. I discuss moments when I experienced the tension between the roles of researcher and practitioner during fieldwork. I discuss some of the difficulties of managing the boundary between closeness and distance in terms of the observer and participant roles adopted. I explore the challenges for the researcher with a dual identity and how methods of reflexive accounting enhance the credibility of such a study. Thus I document the lived experience of my fieldwork; my thoughts and feelings when the insider and outsider identities collide; and how the identity crisis that resulted was resolved.

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