background and purpose: professional autonomy in nursing is defined as working in a self-determined environment and making decisions based on professional judgment. this study aimed to evaluate professional autonomy and its association with individual factors in nurses employed at teaching hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sciences in the southeast of iran in 2013. methods: t...

Autonomy, the freedom to practice independently and to exercise professional judgment in practice activities, is a central element for professional practice. Numerous articles and studies have reported on professional autonomy in general nursing practice; however, professional autonomy for occupational health nurses has not been explored in depth. This article advances the development of a body...

Professional nurse autonomy, an essential attribute of a discipline striving for full professional status, is often confused with personal autonomy, work autonomy or aggregate professional autonomy. Using Walker & Avant's (1995) model for concept analysis, this paper presents an analysis of professional nurse autonomy. Professional nurse autonomy is defined as belief in the centrality of the cl...

154 JMAJ, May / June 2014—Vol.57, No.3 1. What constitutes the exact definition and concepts of the term profession is not clear. In Europe, where the word profession was born, clergy, physicians, and attorneys have been traditionally referred to as the 3 major professions. Here, I would like to state the fundamental features of profession bearing in mind the latter two in particular: physician...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of professional self-concept and professional autonomy on clinical performance of clinical nurses. Participants were clinical nurses working at the university hospital in Seoul. Data were collected using questionnaires that contained items on individual characteristic, professional self-concept, professional autonomy, nursing performance. D...

This was a descriptive study about the effect of professional self-concept and autonomy on nursing performance. The study results indicate that, flexibility, medium autonomy, and position are factors that affect nursing performance. In conclusion, the improvement of nurses’ professional self-concept and autonomy will improve their nursing performance. Therefore, strategies that strengthen profe...

Because of the importance of instructor success in the adequacy of instruction and learning, this study aimed to explain the impact of two factors, namely language teachers’ professional identity and autonomy, with respect to their success. To this end, 190 Iranian EFL teachers, including university lecturers and language institute teachers, participated in this study. As for data collection, t...