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Hormat Sadat Emamzadeh ghasemi Mansoureh A. Farahani Forough Rafii |
Iran University of Medical Sciences - Tehran, Vali asr S. School of Nursing & Midwifery Tehran University of Medical Sciences- Tehran, Tohid Sq. School of Nursing & Midwifery |
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Being at Peace: Beyond the Teaching Competency |
Acquiring teaching competency by nurse teachers has an important role in the achievement of nursing students and improving the quality of nursing education. However, few researchers have focused specifically on the process of teaching competency by Iranian nurse teachers. Understanding the acquiring teaching competency process by Iranian nurse teachers could help improvement in nursing education quality.
Qualitative research was conducted to determine the process of acquiring teaching competency by nurse teachers in its cultural context and the nursing education in Iran. This study, using grounded methodology and took place in three nursing school in Tehran. Nurse teachers (11) included competent nurse teachers, nurse teacher with more than 30 years experience in nursing education and members of Iranian board of nursing. Data was generated by semi structured interviews and was analyzed through using constant comparison.
A theory depicting the core conceptual category of being at peace and its relation to the other four categories was constructed from the data to explain process of acquiring teaching competency of Iranian nurse teachers.
The results can be used to create a peaceful approach as the basis of leading the process of acquiring teaching competency for Iraian nurse teachers.
Nurse Teachers possess individual characteristics with dealing with peacefully could easily pass the process of teaching competency acquisition with success and move towards supremacy.
The authors would like to thank the participants for their sincere cooperation during the different stages of this
study. The budget for conducting this study was provided by the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran
University of Medical Sciences.
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