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and identities will be presented. Gee’s first three steps will be used as they best fit the research project questions around handover constructs. Chapter four will synthesize the ideas developed from the textual analysis. These key ideas will be discussed and recommendations to practice will be noted. It is important to highlight challenges to this research project and these will be shown. A conclusion will be developed based on practice recommendations. 7
Chapter Two Methodology Introduction Discourse analysis does not seem to be the choice of method of many texts in the literature search. One discourse analysis on nursing handover looked at anxiety in nursing practice (Evans et al., 2008). However there are many research articles that integrate components of discourse as language in use. Language in use can stand alone or be made significant by the related social interaction. As discussed in the previous chapter, nursing handover is the communication of information from the outgoing nurse to the incoming nurse. Whether this is the only function of language or if it serves other purposes in a social, cultural and institutional sense will be developed. A social constructionist lens forms the epistemological viewpoint for this research using Gee’s (2005) framework to discourse analysis as a guide for the methodological approach. Ethics and reflexivity will also be discussed in the context of this research. Epistemology‐constructionist/social constructionist approach “All reality, as meaningful reality, is socially constructed” (Crotty, 1998, p.54). It is important to explore the construction of nursing handover and to understand how this reality has come to hold a place in contemporary practice. This research takes account of power dynamics within the social situation but this is not its major focus (Phillips & Hardy, 2002). Knowledge and meaning are not viewed singularly but in fact are seen in the context they present. From a constructionist viewpoint, knowledge only has “meaningful reality” if it is placed within its context (Crotty, 1998, p.42). In this research project nursing handover is in part constructed by the nurses who participate daily in the process within that professional and social context with what is accessible to them such as language, ideas and values. <strong>Nursing</strong> handover alone has no one true meaning; it is only in its interaction or engagement with nurses that it begins to construct meaning. As Crotty suggests often subjectivity and objectivity are presented separately, but a constructionist viewpoint allows them to share a mutual space together rather than them being fractured and viewed singularly. 8
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