Nursing professional identity: an infant or one with Alzheimer

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Abstract:
Background
Each group or profession has its own discourse. Discourses create identity, support institutions, and reproduce power relationships. Professional identity of Iranian nurses, which has recently had the opportunity to represent itself in social arena, needs investigation. This study aims to making clear internal aspect of this identity.
Methods
This study was conducted by discourse analysis, using data of 23 semi-structured individual interviews, and 4 focus group interviews with nurses and senior nursing students of Tehran and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences to evaluate their professional identity.
Results
In professional self concept, variables elements like spirituality value and low financial benefits, conflicting features of holiness and humility, identity emerging, identity escape, low professional self confidence, and justice seeking, lost professional authority, and pride.
Conclusions
Nursing professional identity has formed based on cultural social structure, values and beliefs governing health system. This identity is a spectrum of a growing and emerging identity to a developed but forgotten identity. Although nursing discourse is subordinate in health system discourse, signs of moving toward professional maturity have emerged.
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English
Published:
Iranian Journal Of Nursing and Midwifery Research, Volume:17 Issue: 2, Feb 2012
Page:
178
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