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.
BMC Med Educ. 2023 Jul 4;23(1):492. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04484-x.
The 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.
Ten 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.
Five 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".
Interviews 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.
护理学生的教育应该满足社区的健康需求，但在伊朗，由于一些问题，学生无法接受这种教育。因此，本研究旨在解释伊朗基于社区的本科护理教育中存在的挑战。
在这项定性研究中，对教师和护理专家进行了十次个人半结构式访谈。2022 年，采用基于目的的抽样方法对护士和护理学生进行了八次焦点小组访谈。对访谈进行了记录和转录，然后采用伦德曼和格兰汉姆方法进行了内容分析。
通过对参与者回答的分析，得出了五个主题，包括“基于社区的护理教育和课程薄弱”、“以治疗为导向的卫生系统和教育”、“基于社区的护理教育基础设施和基本结构缺陷”、“基于社区的护理教育实施不力”和“利益相关者参与和合作的弱势”。
对参与者的访谈提供了对基于社区的护理教育挑战的看法，以便教育部和护理学校的本科护理课程评审员、教育者、政策制定者和护理管理人员可以利用本研究的结果来提高教育质量，有效利用护理学生来满足社区的需求，并为提高学生的学习提供适当的背景。
