Abstract
Abstract Objective Since nursing is a performance-based profession, clinical learning environments play an important role in the acquisition of professional abilities and train nursing students to enter the nursing profession and become a registered nurse. The study aimed to investigate the relations among professional identity, wellness, and future hope in nurse interns. Methods A cross-sectional, analytic, descriptive, correlational study design was used to test these relations in the study where 210 nurse interns’ students were selected using a convenience sampling from Zagazig University hospitals and Suez Canal University hospitals in Egypt. The questionnaires consisted of 4 parts, namely demographic characteristics, Professional Identity Scale for Nursing Students (PISNS), Holistic Health and Wellness Survey, and Hope scale. Results Less than half of the study sample had chosen nursing specialty by own will (43.8%), while slightly more than half of them had a “very good” graduation level, and had no nursing role model. The lowest mean professional identity score was for independence in career choice while the highest was for social modeling. The reported physical wellness mean-score was the least, while social wellness was the highest. Professional identity, wellness, and future hope scores differed significantly based on nurse interns’ personal characteristics. There were statistically significant, positive, weak-to-moderate correlations among the scores of professional identity, wellness, and future hope; however, the “choice of nursing study by own will” was a statistically significant independent positive predictor of the scores of professional identity, wellness, and future hope. Conclusions Nurse interns’ professional identity, wellness, and future hope were positively inter-correlated. However, nurse interns’ wellness was the lowest, and it should be fostered as it was the main predictor for future hope. The internship programs should be modulated to improve nurse interns’ professional identity, particularly regarding independence, and should foster their well-being in the clinical environment.
Highlights
The nursing internship program is an important period in the preparation of future nurses to actual practice
Nurse interns’ wellness was the lowest, and it should be fostered as it was the main predictor for future hope
Apart from the above, during the internship program, nursing students continue to build-up their professional identity, which is a form of social identity related to workgroup interactions and how its members distinguish themselves from other professional workgroups.[11]
Summary
The nursing internship program is an important period in the preparation of future nurses to actual practice. Apart from the above, during the internship program, nursing students continue to build-up their professional identity, which is a form of social identity related to workgroup interactions and how its members distinguish themselves from other professional workgroups.[11] According to Stricker, Westhauser,[12] the professional identity is what an individual – as a professional functioning in a certain field of expertise through the use of related acquired knowledge and skills – views him/herself as It involves a gamut of values, beliefs, attitudes, drives, and experience used in competent practices based on both cognitive and moral reasoning. Wellness, and future hope have been studied separately in much previous research work around the world, no studies have been carried out to investigate the 3 variables among nurse interns, their inter-relations, and correlations, especially in the Arab region and in Egypt. The aim of the study is to investigate state of professional identity, sense of wellness, and future hope among nurse interns, and to investigate the inter-relations and correlations among the professional identity, wellness, and future hope for nurse interns in Egypt
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