Growing up and role modeling: a theory in Iranian nursing students' education.

Jamileh Mokhtari Nouri,Fatemeh Alhani,Nahid Rejeh,Abbas Ebadi

doi:10.5539/gjhs.v7n2p273

Abstract

One of the key strategies in students’ learning is being affected by models. Understanding the role-modeling process in education will help to make greater use of this training strategy. The aim of this grounded theory study was to explore Iranian nursing students and instructors’ experiences about role modeling process. Data was analyzed by Glaserian’s Grounded Theory methodology through semi-structured interviews with 7 faculty members, 2 nursing students; the three focus group discussions with 20 nursing students based on purposive and theoretical sampling was done for explaining role modeling process from four nursing faculties in Tehran. Through basic coding, an effort to comprehensive growth and excellence was made with the basic social process consisting the core category and through selective coding three phases were identified as: realizing and exposure to inadequate human and professional growth, facilitating human and professional growth and evolution. The role modeling process is taking place unconscious, involuntary, dynamic and with positive progressive process in order to facilitate overall growth in nursing student. Accordingly, the design and implementation of the designed model can be used to make this unconscious to conscious, active and voluntarily processes a process to help education administrators of nursing colleges and supra organization to prevent threats to human and professional in nursing students’ education and promote nursing students’ growth.

Highlights

The main goal of nursing education is to train qualified and competent nurses who are knowledgeable and skillful enough to maintain and improve the quality of care provided for the patients (Hossein et al, 2010)
Data was analyzed by Glaserian’s Grounded Theory methodology through semi-structured interviews with 7 faculty members, 2 nursing students; the three focus group discussions with 20 nursing students based on purposive and theoretical sampling was done for explaining role modeling process from four nursing faculties in Tehran
Studies conducted in Iran on nursing education indicate the inefficiency of clinical and theoretical trainings for nursing students (Rejeh et al, 2011), which has resulted in a low quality care and a theory and clinic gap (Vaismoradi et al, 2011)

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The main goal of nursing education is to train qualified and competent nurses who are knowledgeable and skillful enough to maintain and improve the quality of care provided for the patients (Hossein et al, 2010). Studies conducted in Iran on nursing education indicate the inefficiency of clinical and theoretical trainings for nursing students (Rejeh et al, 2011), which has resulted in a low quality care and a theory and clinic gap (Vaismoradi et al, 2011). Many Iranian students experience anxiety as a result of feeling incompetent in terms of clinical skills and theoretical knowledge for meeting patients’ various needs (Cheraghi et al, 2010). It should be noted that many teaching methods and strategies have been devised to meet students’ educational needs among which role modeling is the newest one (Karimi Moonaghi et al, 2009)

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