Minä sairaanhoitajana: tulevaisuuden minuudet motivaatiota muokkaamassa

The multivoicedness of written documentation: An international nursing student documenting in a second language

“…The student was positioned as an active participant by his mentors, as well as by his own actions, with the setting emerging from the interaction order. Opportunities for EPR documenting increased the student's agency and reinforced his future in regard to nursing as a profession (see also Virtanen 2013). Nevertheless, the student did not have regular opportunities to do reports with a mentor.…”

“…Moreover, international nurses' professional skills were questioned because their Finnish language skills were assumed to be insufficient (Virtanen 2011). After framing the beliefs surrounding the international workforce, I took a closer look at the work-related narratives of focal participants -international nursing students (n=4) and their mentors (n=6) -and the interplay between agency, identity, and motivation (Virtanen 2013). The narratives examined were related to the students' future hopes and fears, and to their practical training experiences.…”

“…) As indicated earlier, the current study is part of a larger ethnographic longitudinal case study on the development of international nursing students' workrelated Finnish language skills. In order to identify the focus of the current study, I used a triangulation of data from my previous studies on beliefs about workrelated language skills, as observed in media discussions (Virtanen 2011), and work-related narratives of international nursing students (Virtanen 2013). Figure 1 illustrates this research process.…”

“…Here, documentation is explored by taking into account its social nature: workplace litera-cies are socially constructed in a context (see Belfiore, Defoe, Folinsbee, Hunter and Jackson 2004). Documentation is an especially relevant task in the nursing profession and, at the same time, it is considered to be one of the most challenging linguistic practices in the hospital environment for international workers (Kela and Komppa 2011;Tuononen 2013;Virtanen 2013).…”

Insights into the agency, positioning and development of professional Finnish language skills of international nursing students

“…Endnote 1 Dialogical analysis of beliefs on media discussion (Virtanen, 2011), narrative analysis on motivation, identity, and agency (Virtanen, 2013), and a nexus analysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) on workplace literacies (Virtanen, ahead of print). The data is implemented as a part of the project, Finnish as a work language: a sociocognitive perspective to work-related language skills of immigrants (University of Jyväskylä, 2011.…”