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KMID : 0378019840270040105
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New Medical Journal
1984 Volume.27 No. 4 p.105 ~ p.112
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Socialization and Resocialization of Nurses for Professional Nursing Practice
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Abstract
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The recent history of nursing is characterized by institutional change and conflicts that are part of broader social trends since health care organizations are challenged by professionalization on the one hand and bureaucratization on the other. Nurses as well as other professionals employed in bureaucratic organizations are likely to encounter difficulties because of the contrast and potential conflict between bureaucratic and professional systems for the organization of work.
From the perspectives of nursing professionals, the practitioners continually changing roles confronts them with a career pattern of socialization and resocialization. The constant change accompanying resocialization for career roles is closely associated with the generation of conflict. Thus professional nurses who are experiencing continual change in their roles can expect to confront conflict as a natural and predictable phenomenon.
Disillusionment among professional nurses is major reason they leave nursing practice. Job dissatisfaction and role conflict were cited as primary reason under lying the postgraduate exodus from nursing practice found in a recent study. The health care system is deprived of the very found in a recent study. The health care system is deprived of the very workers who might upgrade and breathe new life into an anticipated system.
Economically, this represents a great loss to the institutions and organizations which have expended time and money to educate the nurse and to integrate her into the career at health care delivery system.
The purpose of this study was to examine general models of socialization and resocialization processes which professional nurses experience and to discuss several major features that influence the processes of professional development.
Socialization is the learning of any orientation of functional significance to the operation of a system of complementary role-expectations. In this sense, socialization, like learning goes on throughout life. Professional socialization is thought to occur primarily through social integration with significant others.
Historically, the systematic study of socialization has its roots in all three fields; psychology focusing on the development of individual characteristics relevant to social behavior as well as on the basic process through which these behavioral tendencies are learned, sociology concentrating on characteristics of specific groups on institutions in which socialization occurs and on the common social skills acquired by individuals in vaying context, and anthropology viewing socialization from the standpoint of the broader culture which helps to determine the overall boundaries of socialization experiencies.
Several authors in previous research suggest that socialization process is a complex, multiform chain of events which ideally expose novices to those experiences that will prepare them for particular types of social participation with opinion and value changes.
Theories and models of socialization and resocialization of nurses for professional nursing practice have been presented, including discussions of the phasts of those processes and empirical examples that outline the initial socialization of the professional and the resocialization that occurs with passage from formal education programs to the work setting.
Still many questions have been posed in the literature although a great deal of writing is evident on specific aspects in the socialization/resocialization issues. The authors attempted in this paper to encompass those aspects and ask questions how personality affects role enactment specific to nursing situation and how individuals internalize the organizational values in different phases.
These will stimulate further investigation.
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