Growth Of Professional Identity Research Articles

Nurses’ Experience of End of Life Care in a New Infectious Disease Crisis: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis

This study aims to explore and understand nurses’ end of life experiences during care for critical COVID-19 patients. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 nurses working at a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in ‘D’ Metropolitan City. The 11 nurses all had experience in end of life care for critical COVID-19 patients. Collected data was examined using qualitative thematic analysis. The results showed the four categories were: trauma from end of life care, overwhelming nursing responsibilities for critical COVID-19 patients, role as guardians and supporters of critical COVID-19 patients, growth of professional identity and professional competency as a nurse. An inadequate infectious disease management system burdened nursing practitioners with many responsibilities during the early stages of the pandemic. However, This experience gave nurses an opportunity to re-think the value of caring and re-establish their professional identity. Institutional support and social interest are required to improve the quality of end of life care and work processes and provide psychological support and recovery for nursing practitioners.

Struggles and Strategies in Constructing Professional Identity: The First-Year Teaching Experiences of Indonesian EFL Novice Teachers

Several studies have recorded the increasing number of teachers who left the profession in the first year of teaching in recent years. The main cause is the difficulties over the first year of teaching and the unsatisfactory construction and growth of professional identity. This qualitative study attempted to reveal the struggles faced during their first year of teaching by EFL novice teachers working in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia and how they coped with those struggles regarding their development of professional identity. The struggles are split into internal and external struggles based on the result. The internal struggles are linked to how teachers controlled their emotions self-efficacy, and ability to teach, their jobs and their personal opinions. The external challenges related to the management of the classroom, the abilities, and attitudes of the students, the lack of resources and facilities in the school, the relationships with their colleagues and their salaries. This research is intended to provide more insight into the realities of teachers working in an underdeveloped province like East Nusa Tenggara, in particular how they establish their professional identity in a lack of facilities and learning resources.Keywords: East Nusa Tenggara; Novice Teachers; Professional Identity; Struggles and Strategies

Practical nursing students’ discursive practices on smoking in Finland

ABSTRACT Purpose: Based on focus groups, we analyse how practical nursing students deal with being as smokers and future healthcare workers. The way they justify their smoking is discussed within a group of peers. Methods: The study has a qualitative design with an inductive approach using focus group interviews (FGIs) for data collection. A total of 29 students were interviewed in five groups of five and one group of four participants. Results: In the analysis, we found four different discursive practices the students utilized for rationalizing their own smoking and coping with the moral dilemma of smoking in a context of health care where smoking is forbidden: (1) students normalized smoking with references to its prevalence within their social circles, (2) the students asserted that their smoking was under control, (3) students considered themselves responsible smokers, and (4) students identified smoking as a part of their identity. Conclusion: Training should support the growth of professional identity and address the smoker’s identity right from the start of education. Smokers need special attention in the formulation of professional identity, however, without being stigmatized any further.

Association among clinical learning environment, career maturity and professional identity in fulltime 3+2 nursing undergraduates

Objective To explore the perception of clinical learning environment, career maturity, and professional identity as well as their associations among 3+2 nursing undergraduates. Method Totally 198 3+2 nursing undergraduate students from two provincial medical colleges in Shandong province were enrolled. Results Mean scores for clinical learning environment, career maturity and professional identity were (3.44±0.54), (3.31±0.37) and (3.63±0.62), respectively. Clinical learning environment and career maturity (P<0.001) were positivelyassociated with 3+2 nursing undergraduates' professional identity. Conclusions Clinical learning environment, career maturity and professional identity of 3+2 nursing undergraduates areat a moderate level. Interventions to facilitate clinical learning environments and career maturity will foster the growth of professional identity. Key words: Clinical learning environment; Career maturity; Professional identity; Nursing students

La riflessione al lavoro

This contribution aims at discussing the relationship between professional identity growth and critical reflection on the ways to make experiences, on the knowledge and cognitive and emotional experiences acquired in the workplace, on the epistemic prespecties and sustaining practice. Thinking and re-thinking about oneself, together with inquiring and critizising oneself, allow new world construction, cognitive and learning mobilisation, knowledge production, process, artefact and language invention, and ones emotional life awareness. The subject in the workplace finds in the research, action and training the most promising conditions to discover the meaning of daily activities and to make sense to ones activity.