| Category |
Statements |
| Multiple roles |
“If you are a nurse, only a nurse, excellent. If you are only an instructor, fantastic, but together, it’s the combination that is a burden.” |
| Pressure and frustration |
Lack of supply. That means if there aren’t enough staff, if I don’t have the ability to give the best and most comprehensive care. There’s a baby, there’s a very complex environment that we have to care for and look after everyone. And when I haven’t the ability to give women giving birth everything, I’m frustrated.” |
| Conflict between roles |
Sometimes I feel as if I’m being torn into small pieces, because everyone has expectations of me. They expect me to be both an instructor and a regular nurse, and sometimes I feel as if everyone is disappointed, when I can’t do enough.” |
| Evaluation versus instruction |
“I’ll hurt him, he is so sweet on the one hand and now I’ll be responsible for him not becoming a nurse, and he has already been studying for two, three years and now he has got to his fourth year and now I’m going to stop his studies.” |
