Professional Concerns of Role-Model Nursing Instructors: A Qualitative Research

Abstractbackgroundthe present study was conducted to perceive the role-model nursing instructors’ experience interms of professional challenges and identification of occupational concerns in the education ofnursing students. nursing instructors have a critical and decisive role in the training of skilledand specialized manpower and subsequent growth and development of the communities. so,the present study was conducted to address the role model nursing instructor’s experience interms of professional challenges of nursing students’ education.methodsthe present qualitative study was carried out using the inductive thematic analysis method andthe objective-based sampling. data were collected until saturation, using three focus-groupdiscussions (n=22) and two individual interviews with nursing instructors, as well as eightsemi-structured face-to-face interviews with role-model instructors from five nursing facultiesof the universities in tehran.resultsthe three main themes were extracted, indicating the occupational challenges perceived by theinstructors as follows: “inefficient education-research system,” “inappropriate professionalposition,” and “ineffective interpersonal interactions”.conclusionregarding the concerns of successful model instructors, professional development, preventionof job dissatisfaction, and implementation of role modeling strategies are recommended to beemphasized. taken together, reducing the clinical training-associated problems in order tomodify the education-research system was recognized as the main professional concern of therole-model nursing instructors.