The nursing instructor is analyzing the students in the clinical area

QUESTION

The nursing instructor is analyzing the students in the clinical area to determine the level of doctrinal conversion process according to Davis. When analyzing these students in which order should the instructor make this analysis?

1. Stable internalization
2. Initial innocence work
3. Increasing role simulation
4. Provisional internalization
5. Psyching out and role simulation
6. Labeled recognition of incongruity

ANSWER:

Correct Answer: 2, 6, 5, 3, 4, 1

Fred Davis describes a six-stage doctrinal conversion process among nursing students: Stage 1, initial innocence; Stage 2, labeled recognition of incongruity; Stage 3, psyching out and role simulation; Stage 4, increasing role simulation; Stage 5, provisional internalization; and Stage 6, stable internalization.