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From Student to Nurse

From Student to Nurse

From Student to Nurse

A Longitudinal Study of Socialization
Simpson
May 1980
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    In this study of student nurses at Duke University, Professor Simpson challenges earlier research by demonstrating that a professional school does socialise its students. In addition, by constructing a model that brings together competing theories of socialisation, she finds that socialisation is not necessarily cumulative or unidirectional. Conceptualisations that focus on individual students, such as those emphasising role modelling, student values or peer relations, obscure the most significant conditions and processes. The program of a school is the fundamental structure of occupational socialisation and this structure, not its students, should be blamed for failures and praised for success.

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    May 1980
    Paperback
    9780521296168
    284 pages
    229 × 152 × 16 mm
    0.42kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • List of tables
    • Prologue
    • Part I. Professional Socialisation: theory and research problems:
    • 1. Professional socialisation: perspectives and issues
    • 2. Professions and professional education
    • 3. Dimensions of professional socialisation
    • 4. Studying directional change: study design
    • Part II. The School's Program and Development of Socialisation Processes:
    • 5. Social and cultural backgrounds of student nurses
    • 6. Orientations of entering freshman students toward nursing and nursing education
    • 7. The collegiate movement and nursing service
    • 8. Professional ideology versus bureaucratic training roles
    • 9. Acquisition of occupational orientations in a bureaucratic context
    • 10. Development of personal relatedness to the occupation
    • 11. Synthesis and differentiation of socialisation processes
    • Part III. Individual Influence Sources and Socialisation Processes:
    • 12. Lateral relations and socialisation
    • 13. Students' relations to the program, faculty and hospital and their socialisation
    • Part IV. Implications: basic patterns of socialisation:
    • 14. Some reconsiderations of occupational socialisation
    • Epilogue
    • Appendices A–C
    • References
    • Index.
      Author
    • Simpson