Background: The increasing need and demand for professional nurses and enhance the quality of professional services is a key issue that has led to professional practice in health systems. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the standards of nursing professionalism based on faculties' points of view. Methods: Qualitative design in this study was content analysis with purposive sampling. Da...

Professional development is a continuous process of individual and experimental tests that must empower individual educators to make complex decisions; to identify and to solve problems; to connect theory and practice in learners’ output; and to enable educators to offer learning opportunities to students and prepare them in terms of provided world class standards and citizen responsibilities o...

Background: Medical professional identity is how an individual perceives him/herself as a doctor. Formation of professional identity includes development, advancement, and socialization through social learning of specific knowledge, skills obtained while performing professional roles, practicing, and new attitudes and values. A qualitative study was performed to examine live experience of under...

a bstract background:  one of the key strategies in students’ learning is the in fl uence of models on them. understanding the factors affecting the implementation of role-modeling process in education will help to make greater use of this training strategy. this study aimed to understand the experiences of role model instructors and nursing students about the facilitator factors in the role-mo...

studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. this arti...

background: one of the factors that can improve self-concept and performance of staff is professional maturity. professional maturity can also solve the problems of self-concept. the purpose of this paper was to identify the relationship between the dimensions of self-concept and professional maturity.   materials and methods: this relative applicable study was performed on all the personnel (n...

Background and Objectives: The observance of professional ethics is one of the most important expectations from health care team whose application has a tremendous effect on treatment course. The aim of this study was to investigate barriers to observance of the codes of professional ethics in clinical settings from the perspectives of nurses and midwifery in hospitals affiliated with Qom Unive...

background: following professional standards is the main concern of all managers in organizations. the functions of nurses are essential for both productivity and improving health organizations. in human resources management, supporting nursing profession is of ultimate importance. however, nurses’ experiences of perceived support, which are affected by various factors in workplace, have not be...