Introduction:
The mission of professional nursing is that guarantee health promotion and recovery of patients.Several changes have occurred in the health
care system and professional standards and nurses, as professionals,should pay attention to the changes and identify factors affecting their
professional roles.
The aim of this study was
toclarify the nurse's viewpoint on
factors affecting the professional
roles.
Material and
methods:
In this qualitative research, 7 nurses in various hospitals of
Tehran were selected
by purposeful sampling
and sampling continued until data saturation.Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. All interviews were recorded and hand written and using the constant comparative
method and content
analysis were analyzed. Ability to verify data,hand-written overview of the method was used with participants and partners.
Findings:
Data analysis showed that six components cultural characteristics - beliefs of patients and
his family, nurses' job security, management and
leadership, gap
between the theories -practice, motivational factors
of work environment and nurses' personal beliefs were introduced as factors
affecting the nurses' professional role.
Conclusion:
The results of this study showed that some factors affecting
the nurses’ professional roles that may be facilitated or inhibited the professional
roles performance, and
this requires a
detailedunderstanding of the factors facilitating and hindering the nurse's professional role
and planning to achieve health promotion goal.
