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硕士学位教育对护理专业化的技术影响:叙事研究
Author(s) -
Ho Ken H. M.,
Chow Susan K. Y.,
Chiang Vico C. L.,
Wong Julia S. W.,
Chow Meyrick C. M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/jan.14044
Subject(s) - professionalization , narrative , pedagogy , nurse education , nursing , sociology , psychology , medical education , medicine , social science , art , literature
Abstract Aims (a) To explore the meanings of master's education in the professionalization of nursing; and (b) to describe the core attributes that nurses gained through master's study. Design Narrative inquiry. Methods From June 2017 to June 2018, unstructured interviews were conducted with 12 master‐prepared nurses at advanced nursing position with minimum 5 years of postregistration experience. Collaborative thematic narrative analysis was conducted on verbatim transcripts. Members checking, peer validation and audience validation assured verisimilitude and utility. Results There was a need to fit one's own assertion for professional growth in nursing career structure. Master's study equipped nurses with specialty skills and knowledge with enhanced reflexivity, which nurtured morality, problem‐solving ability and capacity to collaborate inter‐professionally. Master‐prepared nurses demonstrated effective clinical leadership through acting as change agents. Conclusions Master's level education and master‐prepared nurses are instrumental to the professionalization of nursing by expanding the roles of nurses. Nursing career mentoring will maximize nurses’ agency in healthcare system. Developing innovative inter‐professional pedagogy will nurture the reflexivity of master‐prepared nurses.