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Nursing students' perceptions of nursing: a descriptive study of four cohorts
Author(s) -
Safadi R.R.,
Saleh M.Y.N.,
Nassar O.S.,
Amre H.M.,
Froelicher E.S.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2011.00897.x
Subject(s) - nursing , nurse education , perception , curriculum , descriptive research , medicine , team nursing , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , social science , neuroscience
SAFADI R.R., SALEH M.Y.N., NASSAR O.S., AMRE H.M. & FROELICHER E.S. (2011) Nursing students' perceptions of nursing: a descriptive study of four cohorts. International Nursing Review 58 , 420–427 Aims: The study aims to describe nursing students' changing perception of nursing over 4 years of the nursing programme and examine whether perception differed by gender, previous study or choice of nursing education. Methods: A descriptive cross‐sectional design was used, with a probability sample of 606 students. Respondents were a random sample of 50% of each of the four educational cohorts studying within the academic year 2008–2009 in one baccalaureate nursing programme at a Jordanian public university. A specifically designed tool of statements of nursing definitions based on nursing theories, the nursing literature and sociocultural beliefs was used to identify student nurses' perception of nursing. Findings: Student perceptions changed from lay altruistic beliefs of nursing to theoretical medical technological views of the profession denoting a theory–practice gap. Perceptions also differed by gender, having a previous associate degree in nursing and a priority choice to study nursing. Conclusion: Such results delineated the importance of revising nursing schools' curricula and the universities' admission policies into the nursing profession.