Explaining of existing challenges of community-based undergraduate nursing education in Iran: a qualitative study

BMC Medical Education

Research

Meimanat Hosseini¹  Sima Zohari-Anboohi²  Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh³  Arezoo Zeydani⁴ 

[1] Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Medical Surgical-Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Psychiatric Nursing and Management, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: Community-based;    Education;    Nursing;    Undergraduate;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-023-04484-x

 received in 2023-04-06, accepted in 2023-06-30,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe education of nursing students should be such that the health needs of the community are met, but in Iran, due to some problems, students do not receive such education. Therefore, the present study was conducted to explain the existing challenges of community-based undergraduate nursing education in Iran.MethodsTen individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with the faculty members and nursing specialists in this qualitative study. Eight focus group interviews were conducted to the nurses and nursing students using a purpose-based sampling method in 2022. The interviews were recorded and transcribed and then content analysis was done by the Lundman and Granheim method.ResultsFive themes were obtained from the analysis of participants' responses, which include "weakness in community-based nursing education and curriculum", "treatment-oriented health system and education", "defect in the infrastructure and basic structures of community-based nursing education", "weakness in the implementation of community-based nursing education" and "weakness in the stakeholder engagement and cooperation of interested organizations".ConclusionInterviews with the participants provided a vision of the challenges of community-based nursing education so that the reviewers of the undergraduate nursing curriculum in the ministry and nursing schools, educators, policymakers and nursing managers can use the results of the present study to improve the quality of education and the effective use of nursing students in responding to the community’s needs and provide a proper context for improving students' learning.

【 授权许可】

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