Relationships between attitude toward nursing profession, perceived student affairs management, and characteristics of effective nursing students, nursing colleges under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health
Abstract:
The purposes of this descriptive research were to study attitude toward nursing profession, perceived student affairs management, characteristics of effective nursing students; and to determine the relationships between attitude toward nursing profession, perceived student affairs management and characteristics of effective nursing students. The subjects were 385 nursing students studying in class 1,2,3 and 4 at nursing colleges under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health, selected by stratified random sampling. Research instruments were; Attitude Toward Nursing Profession Scale, Perceived Students Affairs Management Questionnaire and Characteristics of Effective Nursing Students Scale, tested for content validity and the reliability by Cronbach' s alpha coefficient were .82, .88 and .89 respectively. The statistical techniques utilized in data analysis were total score, maximum score, minimum score, mean, the percentage accounted of mean, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis and Pearson' s product moment correlation. Major findings were as follows: 1. The highest percentage of mean score of nursing students attitude toward nursing profession was professional characteristics and the lowest percentage of mean score was relationships with colleagues, patients and their family. 2. The top third highest percentage of mean score of perceived student affairs management of nursing students were; orientation program, guidance services, and health services. 3. The top third highest percentage of mean score of characteristics of effective nursing students were; synergizing, seeking first to understand then to be understood, and sharpening the saw. 4. There were positively significant relationships between attitude toward nursing profession, perceived student affairs management and characteristics of effective nursing students at the .05 level ( r = .475 and .391 ).