ROLE MODELS, ROLE CONCEPTIONS, AND ROLE DEPRIVATION

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If a profession is to direct its progress realistically, it must do so with a full knowledge of the threads of the past which it wishes to perpetuate and of those values which, while appropriate at another time or place, are ill-suited to nursing in modern society(1). A study of role conception changes and role deprivation of collegiate nurses from three California State College nursing programs following graduation and initial employment was made over a period of approximately six months. Three Likert-type scales were used to measure the respondents' loyalty to the ideals and values implied in the concepts of service, professional, and bureaucratic roles and their felt role deprivation. Findings suggested that: 1) the bureaucratic orientation of neophyte nurses increases with length of employment, 2) this increase in bureaucratic value orientation is related to a shift from a school—or professionally-centered model to a work-centered model, and 3) role deprivation is greater for subjects retaining instructor role models than for those who shift to work-centered models.

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