Non-fiction, interaction and involment – nexus analysis as a methodological perspective in a clinical nursing environmen

Abstract

This paper introduces the framework, nexus analysis that enables researchers to analyse a practice with the purpose of change. The paper takes its starting point in a research project that investigated nursing students’ socialisation into clinical practice and their identity formation towards becoming acting nurses. Over a period of ten weeks the students managed to engage in countless complex nursing situations. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how the framework of nexus analysis can facilitate a triangulation of methods. The data corpus in the paper consists of web texts, political documents, interviews and video recordings from interactions in clinical practice. The paper shows findings where a triangulation of methods and data has provided nuanced findings on the nursing students’ socialisation process.