THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE NURSE CONSULTANT.
Contributors: Northern Illinois University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: Through techniques of grounded theory methodology, this study described the evolving role of the individual nurse consultant as experienced by practitioners of consultation in nursing. Participants in this study identified and described the various factors and dimensions that contributed to their decision to become and work as nurse consultants.

Interview data from 15 participants actively practicing as nurse consultants provided four core categories that described the evolving role of the nurse consultant. These four categories were: pre-consultant nursing identity, initial modes of entry into consulting, adoption of the nurse consultant role, and integration of the functional roles of consultant. The major properties that characterized the natural progression of each of the core categories were described and analyzed.

This study was undertaken to assist educators in the fields of adult education, nursing, and human resource development in the preparation of the nurse to function in the consultant role. It contributes a theoretical framework that can be employed as a guide in the formal education and training of the professional nurse. In addition, the experienced nurse entering into the consulting field can use the framework as a basis for engaging in self-directed learning of the consultant role.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-08, Section: A, page: 2355.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0162.