Influence of Nursing Models on the Preparation of Healthcare Professionals

Abstract

In the past, the nursing profession has relied on theories from other disciplines such as medicine, philosophy, and sociology. With the dynamic development of nursing from a practical and research perspective, the inevitability of developing specific conceptual models of care and theories to outline a philosophical framework for the profession arises. Models of nursing care should be studied as part of the theoretical training of future health workers, as they instill basic professional principles, skills, and responsibilities in medical nursing students.

All this is then fundamental to the continuing development of nursing and supports the expansion of its autonomous functions. Students of the Medical Nurse specialty play a key role in the continuity and development of nursing, which in turn prompts the study of their opinions on the importance of conceptual models of care in their professional training.

The purpose of this study is to collect the opinions of students from the specialty Medical Nurse, trained at the Medical Faculty of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, about the importance of conceptual models of care in their academic and practical education. Future health professionals' interest in and attention to conceptual models in their professional training has decreased. The majority of participants believe that conceptual models are sufficiently studied, yet they do not regard them as the foundations of medical nursing. These alarming results point to weaknesses in the overall structure, assessment, and control of nursing training activities and, accordingly, a decrease in the level of services provided.