Authors : Leila Valizadeh , Headar Ali Abedi , Vahid Zamanzadeh and Eskandar Fathi-Azar
Abstract: Nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades and is produced a scientific base by academic preparing programs for it. Now, it is the time that the nurses should be aware of the images that they draw as professionals for themselves and others. Since, these images are forming during study and probing the way of forming perceptions (image of profession) and the effective factors on it, has not been considered by students till now and since core concepts and the procedural model of data is not made between concepts, so this study has been done for detecting the profession�s image among nursing students of bachelor�s degree. This study is a qualitative one and a grounded theory. The participants of this study were 30 nursing students who were in first, 4th and 8 semesters. Sampling method was firstly purposeful. When the data were collected and analyzed simultaneously, the more sampling (theoretical) was done according to categories and developing theory. After explaining the aim of research for participation and taking written consent and keeping the record of interviews, unstructured interview was used for gathering data. Simultaneously analysis method was done according to Strauss and Corbin�s 1998 3 staged coding. In the current study the psychosocial issue was recognized: Binary/divalent imaging of the profession and the core variable, explaining data was determined Seeking for recognizing duality factor/uniting or according perceived binary images. Conceptual domains of bachelor�s degree students about this profession include: the profession�s social status. The nature of nursing knowledge/profession-actually/delivering nursing (nursing administering). And the stages of divalent imaging include: ambiguity, event and contrary knowledge and instability, event and valuable knowledge and confidence, accepting and verifying accordant aspect and justifying the contrary aspect (verifying that the images are not accordant) and the presentation of amending propositions ( for more accordance of contrary aspect).
Leila Valizadeh , Headar Ali Abedi , Vahid Zamanzadeh and Eskandar Fathi-Azar , 2008. The Process of Profession�s Image Among Nursing Students of Bachelor�s Degree: A Grounded Theory Study. Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 3: 1079-1089.