Recruitment Procedure and the Participants. The selection
of participants was purposeful [53], as we were seeking
“key informants” or “critical cases” that were knowledgeable
about the phenomenon of interest [44]. In the year 2006,
we invited young nurses to write the narrative stories of
their nursing careers and why they had an intention to
leave nursing. We advertised in Tehy—the magazine of
the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals—and
in an open discussion forum for nurses via the Internet