Table 1: Opinions of the participants on nursing profession based on SWOT
analysis.
1. Theme:
Strengths of Nursing Profession |
|
Strengths of Nursing Profession Education ×
Presence of a license education
according to EU criteria Presence of numerous license programs offering
nursing education ×
Absence of a nursing
education at high school level legally ×
Absence of postgraduate
education program ×
Presence of educated
instructors ×
Nurses having rich theoretical
knowledge |
Other Strengths of Nursing Profession ×
Nurses having legal rights
and laws ×
Presence of occupational
associations ×
Increasing number of
scientific researches and application in nursing field ×
Working in an essential
field like health ×
Nurses working one on one
with individuals or patients ×
Being in a good situation
in terms of technology use ×
Favorable emotional
tendency of the society to nursing ×
Viewing nurses as the host
of hospitals ×
Great number of
nurses ×
Men joining the profession |
II. Theme: Weaknesses of Nursing Profession |
|
Weaknesses of Working Conditions of Nursing
Profession ×
Inadequate number of
actively working nurses although the number of nurses working at the hospital
is adequate ×
Doing overtime ×
Working for insufficient and
unequal wages ×
Failing to refer to nurse
opinion in reaching decisions about the nurses ×
Lack of encouraging
setting ×
Insufficient autonomy ×
Role loss and chaos in the
duty, authority and responsibilities of nurses ×
Perception of physicians
as anauthority ×
absence of the provision
of the services of nurses in the performance system ×
Inadequate worker safety ×
Unfavorable effect of
shift working system on living quality ×
Non-ergonomic working
conditions and being obliged to work with missing materials |
Other Weaknesses Of Nursing Profession ×
Inequalities in
educational levels of nurses ×
Insufficient foreign
language knowledge ×
Weak researching aspects
of nurses and lack of support of administration on this matter ×
Resistance to innovation
and change ×
Insufficient reflection of
theoretical information on the application and presence of differences in
application ×
Opinion differences among
instructors ×
Instructors do not go to
the clinic, therefore there is no unison and harmony between theory and
application ×
Inability to put
professional norms and standards into practice ×
Nurses are not supported
by their colleagues in educational field ×
Nonsupport of
specialization by the state or still failing to give specialized nurse
appointments ×
Prevalence of authority
acceptance and submission to authority by nurses ×
Inadequate professional
awareness ×
Inadequate organization
and conflicts between organizations ×
Inadequate strategic work
force planning ×
Appointment of persons in professions
other than nursing to health institutions’ nursing administrations ×
Unwillingness to political
participation |
III. Theme: Opportunities Directed to Nursing
Profession |
|
Job Finding Opportunitiesin Nursing Profession ×
Great need for nurses in
the society ×
Increasing number of
patients ×
Continuous need for health
services ×
Great work finding
opportunity ×
Opportunity to work in
Europe and America if certain conditions are provided ×
Very large working field ×
Perceiving or serving as a
life coach |
Other Opportunities
Directed to Nursing Profession ×
An opportunity to do
academic career ×
Presence of opportunities
for doing research and wide research area ×
Problem solution and
practical thinking ability gaining enabled by nursing profession ×
Patients share their
situation with nurses most easily ×
Spiritual satisfaction
provided by nursing profession ×
Existence of an opinion as
«a nurse is necessary for each home » ×
Presenting doctor
examination opportunity for our kin the best way |
IV. Theme: Threats Against Nursing Profession |
|
Workers’
Health ×
High risk of catching
occupational illnesses or contagious diseases ×
Frequent experience of
stress and depression ×
High rate of exhaustion
experience ×
Frequent experience of
sleep deprivation, wear and biological arrhythmia ×
Lack of life guarantee |
Other Threats
Against Nursing Profession ×
Exposure to mobbing ×
High anxiety of
malpractice and making mistakes ×
Other health professionals
(doctors, emergency medicine technicians, etc.) ×
Nurse aides ×
Appointment of men who
join nursing profession in administrative duties mostly ×
Accusation although they
don’t deserve it, and being ignored and not caring ×
Inability to postpone
work, mandatory service continuance, emergency and imperativeness of doing the
work ×
Increasing rate of work
load ×
Inability of nurses to
participate in decisions about nursing and making of these decisions by
different occupation groups ×
Undertaking roles of other
workers |