Teachers' experiences of their role following the implementation of Project 2000: a qualitative approach.

This study focuses upon the experiences of a group of six nurse teachers who experienced change in their role following the implementation of Project 2000 at their place of work. The teachers were interviewed using the informal interview method which allowed the researcher to obtain detailed information and get to know them as people. Qualitative analysis based on a modified grounded theory approach revealed four recurrent themes which were discussed in terms of the context of the study and existing theories. The study highlights the feasibility of the grounded theory approach and the informal interviews as a means of collecting detailed data and eliciting in-depth understanding of the participants' experience of their changed role from their perspective. The informal interviews and the researcher's knowledge of the participants and the context in which the study was conducted have proved to be helpful in generating categories which describe the teachers' experiences of the changes in their role.