| Summary: | This is a study on becoming and being a nurse. The nursing role involves role-anticipation, role-taking, role-playing and role-abandonment; it involves the moulding, by specific process, of an occupationally-undefined individual into a professional person. These processes, if successful, consist of a commitment to nursing norms by discipline, identification, and rites de passage. They are accompanied by increasing group unity, increasing adoption of institutional norms and a decreasing ability to play other roles and to identify with outsiders. Role-taking could also be seen in terms of distinct phases such as the theoretical phase, the practical phase, the phase of disillusionment and the phase of acceptance and routine. There is a change in attitudes between the first and the final phase.
The role of the nurse can be clarified by the use of a method of occupational analysis. The five variables of the scheme are: images of the role, character of the obligations, rewards, strains and relation to others.
The methods and techniques that were used for this study were questionnaire, guided and unguided interviews, and participant observation. === Arts, Faculty of === Sociology, Department of === Graduate
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