the study adopted a descriptive phenomenological approach. Husserl’s philosophical endeavor to understand human experience and derive a rich description of that “live’ experience provide an appropriate foundation for this project. Prior to recruitment university of the west of Scotland ethics committee and NHS Greater Glasgow and clyde RB approval was sought and granted. the study population comprised 10 newly qualified child branch nurses recently recruited to neonatal nursing posts within 4 neonatal wards .
inclusion criteria included single registration child branch nurse with less than 12 mounts post qualifying experience whose participation was voluntary with signed consent . following a recruitment process which include posting recruitment packs to eligible candidates n = 10 , 3 participants were successfully recruited between September and December 2012 with data collection undertaken in January 2013.