Table 2 Summary of the included studies on the evolution of Iran’s nursing education
Authors, Publication year | Objective(s) | Evidence type | Main findings or conclusion |
|---|---|---|---|
[5] | Overview of the evolutionary process of nursing in Iran | Literature review | Experimental nursing in Iran became a nursing academy with the effect education from the United States and England. With the onset of the Islamic revolution and war and increasing need, philosophy and nursing education models were changed. With the end of the war and the establishment of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, the Nursing Organization and Nursing Board were founded in the areas for Iranian nursing education |
[49] | Explaining the role of the Iran-Iraq war in the professionalism of nursing and medicine | Qualitative content analysis | “Training/Learning” was explored as a sub-theme of “promotion of personal and professional empowerment”. Most informants recognized the war as a constructive factor for nursing training and learning |
[6] | Exploration of historical evolution of the Iranian nursing profession within a sociopolitical context | Historical study | Three major sociopolitical occurrences including the White Revolution, the Islamic Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq war had significant impacts on the Iranian nursing education |
[7] | Overview on history and comparison of nursing education in Iran and China | Literature review | The major difference between two systems is validating the quality of nursing education graduates. In China, a national test is held to receive a certificate after graduation and before working as a nurse, but in Iran, there is no such program. The most common aspect between two systems is their educational paradigm concentrated on treatment of internal diseases and surgery with modeling the western biomedical model |
[48] | Exploration of nursing developments in Iran during World Wars I & II | Historical study | The onset of academic nursing training in Iran was influenced by multiple factors such as war, famine, foreign forces, and the beginning of the modern age |
[52] | Overview of history of nursing in the Islamic Republic of Iran | Literature review | Recent changes in Iranian nursing have resulted in university-based programs up to doctoral level |
[92] | Overview of developing nursing education in Iran, within its economic and sociopolitical contexts | Literature review | Transformative changes in Iranian nursing education, specifically in higher education system, has resulted in nurses now undertaking study across all university-based programs up to doctoral level. Although these improvements in nursing education in Iran are to be applauded, much more attention is needed to ensure the competency of nurse practitioners in Iran |
[9] | Overview of the professional nursing in Iran within its historical and sociocultural framework | Literature review | Nursing in Iran has progressed from the apprenticeship style of nurse training to the higher education sector, with the baccalaureate degree required for registered nurses. In Iran, as in other West and East Asian countries, the image of nurses has not changed despite advances in nursing practice, education, and research; necessitating professional socialization and policy changes |
[50] | Exploration of gendered nursing education and practice among Iranian nursing students and faculties | Ethnography | Thematic analysis identified gender variations in care and compassion, spirituality, economic motives, and practice preference. Gendered nursing in Iran differentiates the nature and expression of caring between males and females and is embedded in the concepts of respect and modesty integrated into nursing teaching and practice. Iran’s support for male superiority over females is embedded in nursing education and practice |
[54] | Overview on evolution of nursing education and profession in Iran within its religious, cultural, and political framework | Literature review | There are such basic issues as modes of education, cultural/religious states of consciousness, and the rights of women in Iran. These factors generally affect the development of the nursing profession and nursing education |
[53] | Overview on nursing education in Iran | Literature review | Significant progress has been made 20 years in Iranian nursing education; however, there are problems to be solved |