Growing up and role modeling: a theory in Iranian nursing students' education

One of the key strategies in students' learning is being affected by models. Understanding the role-modeling process in education will help to make greater use of this training strategy. The aim of this grounded theory study was to explore Iranian nursing students and instructors' experien...

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Published in:Global journal of health science 2014-11, Vol.7 (2), p.273-283
Main Authors: Mokhtari Nouri, Jamileh, Ebadi, Abbas, Alhani, Fatemeh, Rejeh, Nahid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel
Education, Nursing - methods
Faculty, Nursing
Female
Focus Groups
Grounded Theory
Humans
Interviews as Topic - methods
Iran
Learning
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Theoretical
Students, Nursing - psychology
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Summary:One of the key strategies in students' learning is being affected by models. Understanding the role-modeling process in education will help to make greater use of this training strategy. The aim of this grounded theory study was to explore Iranian nursing students and instructors' experiences about role modeling process. Data was analyzed by Glaserian's Grounded Theory methodology through semi-structured interviews with 7 faculty members, 2 nursing students; the three focus group discussions with 20 nursing students based on purposive and theoretical sampling was done for explaining role modeling process from four nursing faculties in Tehran. Through basic coding, an effort to comprehensive growth and excellence was made with the basic social process consisting the core category and through selective coding three phases were identified as: realizing and exposure to inadequate human and professional growth, facilitating human and professional growth and evolution. The role modeling process is taking place unconscious, involuntary, dynamic and with positive progressive process in order to facilitate overall growth in nursing student. Accordingly, the design and implementation of the designed model can be used to make this unconscious to conscious, active and voluntarily processes a process to help education administrators of nursing colleges and supra organization to prevent threats to human and professional in nursing students' education and promote nursing students' growth.
ISSN:1916-9736
1916-9744
DOI:10.5539/gjhs.v7n2p273