The present study aims to overcome these identified weaknesses, by examining contemporary CNC practice free of any prior theoretical

commitment to the Strong Model, and to identify the key features, or unique value add of the CNC role as lived. This identification will facilitate more specific tailoring of design of education programs to prepare for the role. It will also provide an understanding that contributes to scenario-based modeling of possible futures for the nursing workforce. To identify the key features or unique value add of BMN 673 research buy the CNC role as lived (free of theoretical commitment to the Strong Model). The scholarly tradition of Hermeneutic Phenomenology was used to explore the experience as lived of being a CNC in regional (North Coast of NSW) and metropolitan (Sydney NSW) locations. Five focus groups were conducted with a total of 37 CNCs click here (18 metropolitan, 19 regional). Each group was guided by a facilitator and co-facilitator from the research team. Like all phenomenology there is no cook book style recipe of method that can be employed, but rather quality scholarship arises from adherence to the chosen philosophical tradition (Van Manen, 1979). Demonstration of scholarship and how the project ‘hangs together’ conceptually (Davey, 2006) allows the passing of the “so-what” test of significance (Sandelowski, 1997). This study used focus groups to allow

the researchers to fuse horizons (Gadamer, 1976) with CNCs in a group conversation related to the nature of the role. In keeping with hermeneutics (as opposed to transcendental phenomenology) this fusion involves a conscious effort to acknowledge the subjectivity of both the Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II participants and researchers as meaning is found in the contact between people, as opposed to a misguided quest to construct a perfect ‘subject less’ interaction (in which all prejudices can be identified and bracketed) between completely understood motives and the consciously performed action of research

to aimed at identifying universal essence (Gadamer, 1976 and Finlay, 2002). The group environment conducive to moving in a circular process from concrete to abstraction and back again while checking resonance with CNCs from different contexts. Participating CNCs responded to a general emailed invitation to participate in the study. Inclusion criteria were employment as a CNC in NSW. The conversation was not idle chatter but a dialog focused on the phenomena of which both participants and researchers had agreed to focus and shared a sense of relevance (Bernstein, 1983). The researchers began with the general invitation to discuss the experience of practicing as a CNC and had an interview guide that could be used to prompt, to reground the conversations as needed and to encourage a consistent approach to directing the discussion (see Table 1).