Professional identity development of advanced practice nurses: Evaluating its integration in curricula and relevance for professional practice

IF 3.3 3区医学 Q1 NURSING

Nurse Education in Practice Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI:10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104202

Kathleen Clark , Alexander Rödlach , Andrea Simek , Joyce Miller , Mariana Ballesteros , Rebecca Davis , LeAnn Holmes , Margo Minnich , Alexandra Schultz

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Abstract

Aim

To demonstrate how students, alums and faculty view the effectiveness of the integration of university mission statements into curriculum and their significance for preparing for professional practice.

Background

This study builds on previous research exploring the influence of mission, vision and values statements in informing DNP program curricula and contributing to the development of students' professional identity by analyzing how the themes found were integrated into curricula and their perceived relevancy for practice.

Design

A mixed-methods approach was used called Group Concept Mapping, which built on the previous qualitative data found using quantitative analysis. A DNP program in the U.S. American Midwest participated in this research. Participants included thirty-one students, alumni and faculty from this DNP program.

Methods

32 statements were generated from the previous study, where participants completed a sorting and rating activity in the Group Wisdom software system. Next, the participants sorted these same statements into groups based on their perceived similarity and the results were analyzed using two bivariate statistical methods that created concept maps. Lastly, participants further identified how each statement was clearly articulated in their DNP educational experiences and how relevant these themes were for professional practice.

Results

The results suggest that the participants found most themes to be clearly articulated in the curriculum and found them relevant to practice.

Conclusions

This study provides evidence that educational experiences that allow nurses to develop a professional identity are well-integrated into the DNP curriculum and that these themes have relevance to professional practice.

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高级实习护士的专业身份发展：评估其与课程的整合情况以及与专业实践的相关性。

目的：说明学生、校友和教师如何看待将大学使命宣言融入课程的有效性及其对准备专业实践的意义：本研究在以往探索使命、愿景和价值观声明在指导 DNP 项目课程和促进学生职业认同发展方面的影响的研究基础上，分析了如何将所发现的主题融入课程及其与实践的相关性：设计：我们采用了一种名为 "小组概念图 "的混合方法，该方法建立在之前通过定量分析发现的定性数据基础之上。美国中西部的一个 DNP 项目参与了这项研究。参与者包括该 DNP 项目的 31 名学生、校友和教职员工。方法：32 条陈述来自之前的研究，参与者在 Group Wisdom 软件系统中完成了分类和评级活动。接下来，参与者根据其感知到的相似性将这些相同的陈述进行分类，并使用两种创建概念图的双变量统计方法对结果进行分析。最后，学员们进一步确定了每个陈述在他们的 DNP 教育经历中是如何清晰阐述的，以及这些主题与专业实践的相关性：结果表明，参与者发现大多数主题都在课程中得到了清晰阐述，并认为这些主题与实践相关：本研究提供了证据，证明能够让护士发展专业身份的教育经历被很好地融入了 DNP 课程，并且这些主题与专业实践相关。

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来源期刊

Nurse Education in Practice NURSING-

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

9.40%

发文量

180

审稿时长

51 days

期刊介绍： Nurse Education in Practice enables lecturers and practitioners to both share and disseminate evidence that demonstrates the actual practice of education as it is experienced in the realities of their respective work environments. It is supportive of new authors and will be at the forefront in publishing individual and collaborative papers that demonstrate the link between education and practice.