Socialization Process and Nursing a Research Proposal

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review (2008) suggest that professional mentors and role models have a strong influence on the development of professional nurses and that committed, ethical, and empathetic service on the part of those mentors and role models is associated directly with the development of similar approaches on the part of new nurses. That review also indicated that mentors and role models play an important role in helping new nurses form realistic career expectations that minimize dissatisfaction, disillusionment, and diminution of empathy in clinical settings (Murphy, Jones, Edwards, et al., 2008).

The implications of the Price study (2009) suggest that while individuals who choose nursing as a career do exhibit higher levels of empathy and caring as a group than the general population, those qualities are more likely to diminish through the entire course of professional nursing training.

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This result runs counterintuitive to expectations that professional nursing training would foster those predispositions and allow for their fuller development during professional training.

The combined implication of the Murphy, Jones, Edwards, et al. review (2008) and the Price study (2009) are that nursing mentors and role models must play a role in minimizing any disillusionment among nurses as they make the transition from students to professional nurses. Similarly the studies also imply that nursing mentors and role models should specifically dedicate themselves to addressing the apparent diminution in caring behaviors and empathy during that time noted in the Price study (2009)......

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