Through the looking glass: being a critical ethnographic researcher in a familiar nursing context
Heather Cudmore Tutor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Tasmania, Australia
Juliet Sondermeyer Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Tasmania, Australia
This article draws on the primary author’s experiences of conducting a critical ethnographic study within the emergency department where she works. Extracts from her journal entries illustrate the tensions that emerged. These are theorised and discussed, resulting in a ‘troubling’ of the ethnographic field
Nurse Researcher.
14, 3, 25-35.
doi: 10.7748/nr2007.04.14.3.25.c6030
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