Influences of nursing students' career planning, internship experience, and other factors on professional identity
Li-Zhen Wei1, Shi-Shuang Zhou1, Shuang Hu1
1Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Background And Objective:
Nursing professional identity is an important factor in the development of nursing education and clinical practice. Career-planning curriculums enable students to learn relevant knowledge and skills in a targeted manner, in addition to achieve career targets. Assessment and analysis of the present situation of Chinese nursing students' career planning and professional identity may provide an important guidance for the improvement of teaching content and quality of the career-planning curriculum. This study aimed to describe nursing students' professional identity, and to find out influences of nursing students' career planning, internship experience, and other factors on professional identity.
Methods:
A descriptive cross-sectional research method was employed to conduct a questionnaire on 453 full-time junior and senior undergraduate nursing students in China in December 2019.
Results:
The average score for nursing students' professional identity was 101.42, which is at a moderately low-level. There was a significantly positive correlation between the level of nursing students' career planning and professional identity (r = 0.529, P < 0.01). Nursing students' professional identity was also influenced by grade, age, acceptance of career-planning curriculums, and other factors.
Conclusion:
The results indicated that the level of professional identity in nursing students is closely associated with their career planning. One strategy to improve this situation is to motivate universities to pay further attention to the effectiveness of career-planning curriculums and, to improve the quality of teaching and guidance system.
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