Professional Identity and Clinical Competency

What is it about?

Clinical competency and knowledge of the effective factors are of critical importance in nursing. Competency, self-esteem, and self-knowledge are achievable through professional identity. Employees’ participation in and attachment to their professional role is contingent considerably upon their professional identity. In light of this, the present study is aimed at determining correlation between professional identity and clinical competence of the nurses working in psychiatric wards of the hospitals affiliated with Tehran-based medical sciences universities.

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Why is it important?

Assessment of personal characteristics of those in the profession of health services and surveys of probable relationship of such characteristics with performance are novel and growing approaches . There is a paucity of surveys of professional identity and clinical competency of nurses in Iran and given the special condition of psychiatric nursing in the country (unclear professional task definition, lack of enough expert psychiatric nurses, lack of psychological health standard, absence of clear and transparent explanations, and overlapping tasks) the authors conducted the present study in an attempt to determine correlation between professional identity and clinical competency of the nurses in psychiatric wards of the hospitals affiliated with Tehran-based medical sciences universities.

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