فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Professional responsibility‑acquiring process among bachelor degree nursingstudents is important for their current and future performance and educational and health‑caresystem, but this process has not been explored in the literature. The aim of the current study is toexplore the process of acquiring professional responsibility among bachelor degree nursing students.METHODOLOGY: The study design was based on grounded theory (Corbin and Strauss 2015).Purposive and theoretical sampling led to the inclusion of 18 individual interviews and a focus groupinterview with bachelor degree nursing students, their instructors, and key informants in a nursingschool and university, an educational hospital, and a health comprehensive service center in Tehranin 2019–2020.RESULTS: After data analysis, 6 categories, 17 primary categories, 64 subcategories, and 1747 initialcodes were extracted. Trying to optimal use of the educational period was the main category of thisstudy and its primary categories were responsible learning and performance management strategies,there were facilitators and inhibitors categories for applying these strategies. Personal, educational,and professional context factors were primary categories that may lead to the main concern (uncertainproductivity of the educational period) with regard to acquiring professional responsibility. Protectionof the students and others versus irresponsibility was consequence category of this process.CONCLUSION: Knowing the process of acquiring professional responsibility among bachelor degreenursing students can be used to facilitate the formation, promotion, and evaluation of professionalresponsible behaviors. Further researches in these areas are recommended.