Discussion
Study limitations
The study offers insight into experiences of nursing students
in relation to empowering and disempowering practice
situations, but the limitations need to be acknowledged.
The study was confined to one school of nursing in the UK
and, although the findings may be transferable beyond this
context, caution needs to be exercised in doing this. The CIT
method has inherent limitations in the lack of depth
description generated from the written incidents because it
is not possible to probe or ask for clarification of meaning.
However, the lack of deep description was to some extent
balanced by sample size and the range of incidents described.