Barriers and Facilitators of Professional Socialization in Nursing: A Systematic Review

Background and Aim: Professional socialization, as a major issue in nursing, is a process during which novice nurses become professiona nurses with good fanction. Professional socialization of nurses is essential in this caring profession and has a direct link with the quality of provided services. Therefore, aim of this study is to assesed the barriares and facilitators of professional socialization of nurses. Materials and Methods: This review conducted based on the Broom approach. The studies related to the purpose of study, with English or Persian language, that the full text was accessible, were included in the study, Key words used include professional socialization, nursing, barriers and facilitators. Persian and International accredited online databases such as Magiran, SID, Iranmedex, Pubmed, google scholar, MEDLINE, Scopus, Elsevier and Sciencedirect were used. Ultimately 31 articles were included. Results: results showed that organizational factors, inadequate student selection system, gap between theory and practice, and perspectives of the community to the nursing profession were barriers to nurses' professional socialization. Also, reforming resources and educational structure, providing an accessible learning environment, using proper role models, empowering individual and professional nurses, were facilitators of this process. Conclusion: Effective profession socialization in the nursing requires the provision conditions and Arrangements in the field of education and services. So, nursing managers need to consider barriers of professional socialization and apply the necessary measures to eliminate these barriers in order to improve the quality of care and patient satisfaction.