Factors Influencing Nursing Teachers' Professional Identity

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which influence nursing teachers' professional identity by focusing nursing teachers'backgrounds. Questionnaires were returned by mail from 327 nursing teachers, and the findings are as follows :

1)The factors which influence nursing teachers' professional identity are sex, age, teaching experience, will to continue teaching, and whether they have a role model as a nursing teacher.

2)The teaching experience influences nursing teachers'professional identity more than the will to continue teaching.

3)The male teachers tend to have a lower sense of nursing teachers' professional identity than the female teachers, because the male teachers are younger, have less teaching experiences, and have difficulty in finding a role model of the same gender. It is necessary to arrange and maintain a good work environment, and for teachers to participate in training and doing research, in order to motivate them to continue teaching and to elevate their professional identity.