PERCEPTIONS OF FIRST AND LAST YEAR NURSING BACHELOR STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR OWN PROFESSION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

Zamanzadeh, V and Nasiri, KH and Valizadeh, L (2013) PERCEPTIONS OF FIRST AND LAST YEAR NURSING BACHELOR STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR OWN PROFESSION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY. The Journal of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, 11 (8). pp. 649-658.

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Abstract

Nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades. It seems that researches on nursing students perceptions about nursing profession at first and at the end of their education in our country(Iran) ins’t enough. So this study was conducted with the aim of describing the nature of first and last year nursing bachelor students about their own profession. Materials & Methods: This study is a qualitative one, and the participants of this study were 20 nursing students who were in the first and last year of their education in bachelor degree. Sampling method was purposeful. The data were collected and analyzed (content analysis) simultaneously. After explaining the aim of research to the participants, and taking written consent and keeping the record of interviews, unstructured interview was used to gather the data. Results: In the current study, conceptual domains of bachelor’s degree students about this profession included: “The nature of nursing (knowledge/ job)”, “The profession’s social status” and “Actually/delivering nursing (nursing administering)”. The student were fully aware and close to nursing reality in their last year. Another classification as “effective (positive /negative) factors on nursing student’s perceptions about their own profession” were recognized as well. Conclusion: According to findings of this study, it seems that some interventions must be conducted in order to assess and inform students about their profession in three dimensions of profession concerning factors which are affecting their perceptions

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: profession, students, nursing, qualitative study
Subjects: R Medicine > RT Nursing
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email gholipour.s@umsu.ac.ir
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2018 05:31
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2018 05:31
URI: http://eprints.umsu.ac.ir/id/eprint/4260

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