Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Ph.D. of Nursing, Community Health Nursing Department, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Ph.D. of Reproductive Health, Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Life Style Institute, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Nursing Ph.D. Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Professional responsibility‑acquiring process among bachelor degree nursing
students is important for their current and future performance and educational and health‑care
system, but this process has not been explored in the literature. The aim of the current study is to
explore the process of acquiring professional responsibility among bachelor degree nursing students.
METHODOLOGY: The study design was based on grounded theory (Corbin and Strauss 2015).
Purposive and theoretical sampling led to the inclusion of 18 individual interviews and a focus group
interview with bachelor degree nursing students, their instructors, and key informants in a nursing
school and university, an educational hospital, and a health comprehensive service center in Tehran
in 2019–2020.
RESULTS: After data analysis, 6 categories, 17 primary categories, 64 subcategories, and 1747 initial
codes were extracted. Trying to optimal use of the educational period was the main category of this
study and its primary categories were responsible learning and performance management strategies,
there were facilitators and inhibitors categories for applying these strategies. Personal, educational,
and professional context factors were primary categories that may lead to the main concern (uncertain
productivity of the educational period) with regard to acquiring professional responsibility. Protection
of the students and others versus irresponsibility was consequence category of this process.
CONCLUSION: Knowing the process of acquiring professional responsibility among bachelor degree
nursing students can be used to facilitate the formation, promotion, and evaluation of professional
responsible behaviors. Further researches in these areas are recommended.
Keywords
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