Nursing Socialization Concept and Related Factors: A Systematic Review

Socialization assumes the process of professional role acceptance and a real way of professional identity improvement. This study is aimed to assess socialization concept and related factors in nursing from 2000 - 2014.
In this systematic review, quantitative and qualitative studies of nursing socialization concept identified through a search of Medline, Elsevier, Wiley data bases from 2000 to 2014. Keywords that were searched included “Nursing Socialization Professional Socialization” and “Nursing”. Then during complete review articles, English published papers of socialization and related factors were extracted.
In the first phase, 607 studies related to nursing socialization concept were found and then 41 papers included nursing socialization directly or indirectly and between them 15 articles, 3 from Medline, 5 from Elsevier and 7 from Wiley, were related to research directly. Once the database searches were complete, the papers were reviewed first by title, then by abstract, and then by full paper by reasonable interpretive approach.
The findings showed nursing socialization is a multidimensional complex concept and is related to individual social factors and academic therapeutic organizations which act as facilitator or inhibitor. Both top and middle management levels of faculties and hospitals could use tips to form true socialization process and then professional identity will improve between nurses.