Nursing Bachelor’s Education Program in Iran and UCLA: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Introduction: Considering the world's most successful educational systems is an indication for the institutionalization of an effective system and comparing different educational systems will promote the content and quality of the curriculum.

Explaining of existing challenges of community-based undergraduate nursing education in Iran: a qualitative study

“…The findings of Hajbaghery et al's study showed that the nursing curriculum in Iran is focused on disease and treatment and is taken from nursing courses and lessons from foreign countries. For this reason, it is not appropriate for the community’s needs [ 16 ]. Also, based on numerous studies, the weak presence of community-based care in nursing education, the focus on hospital care, and the focus of nursing education on the clinical in Iran have caused most nursing schools to train their students to play the traditional nursing role.…”

“…The results of many comparative studies aimed to compare Iran's undergraduate nursing education program with the countries of the world [ 11 ], developed and developing countries [ 12 ], Jordan and Turkey [ 13 ], Australia [ 14 ], South Korea [ 15 ], California [ 16 ], America [ 17 ], China [ 18 ], Japan [ 19 ], Singapore [ 20 , 21 ], Malaysia [ 22 ], England and Canada [ 23 , 24 ] have shown that the present nursing education program in Iran has defects and weaknesses and needs to be revised.…”

“…Also, the conditions of undergraduate nursing education in Iran are that students are mostly trained to serve in hospitals and the training provided is hospital-based and emphasizes treatment. At the same time, paying attention to the health needs of the community and empowering students to provide services in the community is very low, while many of the existing problems can be solved by providing services in the community [ 12 , 16 , 26 , 27 ]. Therefore, due to the high importance of community-based nursing education and the failure to train nurses to respond to the community’s needs, the researchers decided to conduct the present study to explain of existing challenges of community-based undergraduate nursing education in Iran so that through it they can identify the problems and barriers for achieving the goal.…”