The Image of Nursing as a Profession Among Students of the Military Technical Nursing School in Alexandria | ||||
| Journal of High Institute of Public Health | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 38, Issue 4, October 2008, Page 785-801 PDF (179.69 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jhiph.2008.20970 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Taghrid Gaber Abd El-Aziz* | ||||
| Brigader of the Army Forces | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades and produced a scientific base by academic preparing programs for it. Now, it is the time to 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 as image of profession and the effective factors on it had not been considered by students till now and since core concepts. So, this study has been done for detecting the profession's image among nursing students of the Military Technical Nursing School in Alexandria. This study is a descriptive one and aimed at determining the image of nursing as a profession among students in Military Technical Nursing School as well to propose changes in relation to students image of nursing as a profession. The participants of this study were 120nursing students who were in 1st , 2nd and 3rd years. A structured interview questionnaire was developed by the researcher to collect data about the socio demographic characteristics of students and their parents as well to identify the image of nursing as a profession among students such as reasons of enrolling to the Military Technical Nursing School, image toward Military and Civilian hospitals, causes of positive and negative image and their suggestion for improving nursing image. The study results revealed that the highest percentages of students in Alexandria had a positive image of military nursing as a profession except the students who's residency is Mersa Matrouh City. This portrayed from the military uniform, a good chance for work with a good salary demonstrated a positive influence of their image to nursing as a profession. However, working in the afternoon and night shifts and on Fridays and vacations, doing non nursing duties, calling the nurse at any time, the method of punishment if mistakes occurred had a negative influence on the image of nursing among the highest percentages of students. The study recommended further investigation for the negative views of nurses. Military hospitals should modify working condition and promote friendly environments for students with greater flexibility in work shifts. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Image of Nursing; Military Technical Nursing School; alexandria | ||||
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