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A Study of Socialization of Accelerated BSN Graduates

Wolf, Linda Eileen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1182781854

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2007, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health, and Human Services / Department of Teaching, Leadership and Curriculum Studies.
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the socialization of accelerated BSN graduates who had been employed in the workforce for 2 to 3 years. Socialization was examined as a calling, not in terms of job socialization, which is the focus of research on socialization in the literature. Eight interviews with open-ended questions were conducted with graduates of a school of nursing at an urban university in Northeast Ohio. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi’s (1978) procedural steps. The following assertions emerged: Assertion 1: The feeling of being a nurse, an attribute of professional identity, coincided with the occurrence of specific incidents during induction socialization; Assertion 2: The feeling of being a nurse is a sense of becoming, involving personal commitment and internalization of values during the process of professional socialization; and Assertion 3: Critical incidents revealed that accelerated BSN graduates have a deep sense of commitment to nursing. A comparison of these findings to Benner’s (1984) stages of nursing, the affective domain, and Ohlen and Segesten’s (1998) concept analysis revealed that accelerated BSN graduates made the progression and transition through induction socialization and achieved professional socialization described as the feeling of being a nurse. The progression and transition through the stages of nursing, the affective domain leading to the feeling of being a nurse, occur concurrently.
James Henderson (Advisor)
175 p.
socialization; accelerated BSN programs; second degree programs

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  • Wolf, L. E. (2007). A Study of Socialization of Accelerated BSN Graduates [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1182781854

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wolf, Linda. A Study of Socialization of Accelerated BSN Graduates. 2007. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1182781854.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wolf, Linda. "A Study of Socialization of Accelerated BSN Graduates." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1182781854

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