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- Title
Impediments to the formation of intensive care nurses' professional identify.
- Authors
Mousazadeh, Somayeh; Yektatalab, Shahrzad; Momennasab, Marzieh; Parvizy, Soroor
- Abstract
Background: Nurses face challenges regarding professional identify. Being unaware of these challenges and not owning positive professional identify leads to a lack of self-confidence. Thus, nurses face problems in interpersonal communication and lose their attachment to their profession. Few studies have engaged with impediments to forming positive professional identity in relation to intensive care nurses. Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impediments to forming positive professional identity in nurses working in intensive care unit. Research design: In this study, the conventional content analysis method was used in order to obtain the impediments to forming positive professional identities in nurses. Data were collected through 15 semi-structured interviews and 2 focus group interviews from March 2015 to June 2016. Purposive sampling was used and participants were recruited until data saturation was reached; they were then analyzed using the conventional content analysis method. Participants and research context: In total, 24 intensive care unit nurses from one hospital in Northern Iran were selected through purposive sampling. Ethical consideration: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Findings: Four main themes of professional identity challenges were extracted from the analysis of the data: neglect of professional status of nursing; distrust of nursing knowledge; unprofessional performance; and low professional attraction. Discussion and conclusion: Nurses stated that the neglect of the professional status of nursing and distrust of nursing knowledge have always been a hindrance in forming a positive professional identity. They also mentioned that unprofessional performance and low professional attraction are the other influencing factors in this regard. Thus, detecting these factors can guide nurses and their managers towards creating positive professional identity, and as a result, will improve their job satisfaction, professional advancement, and durability.
- Subjects
IRAN; CONTENT analysis; EMPLOYEES; EXPERIENTIAL learning; FOCUS groups; HOSPITALS; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; NURSE-patient relationships; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; SHIFT systems; WORK; QUALITATIVE research; JUDGMENT sampling; OCCUPATIONAL roles; PROFESSIONAL identity; THEMATIC analysis; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Nursing Ethics, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 6, p1873
- ISSN
0969-7330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0969733018786059