Plunkett Robyn D, Iwasiw Carroll L, Kerr Mickey
University of Western Ontario.
Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh. 2010;7:Article23. doi: 10.2202/1548-923X.2031. Epub 2010 Jul 13.
The shortage of graduate-level prepared nurses is reaching critical levels. Combined with an anticipated wave of faculty retirements, a relatively older graduate student body, and an insufficient number of graduates at the Masters' and doctoral levels, the recruitment of more and younger students into graduate programs in nursing has become a priority for the profession. Current understanding of why undergraduate nursing students choose to pursue graduate studies in nursing remains vague. A non-experimental descriptive correlational study was designed and 87 useable surveys were collected from fourth-year baccalaureate nursing students at a large South-Western Ontario University (response rate = 67%). The influence of student valuation of graduate studies and self-efficacy (SE) for graduate studies on student intention to pursue graduate studies in nursing was clearly demonstrated with this study (R(2) = .52). Implications for nursing education include working towards undergraduate curricula that enhance students' valuation of and SE for graduate studies in nursing.
研究生层次护士短缺已达危急程度。再加上预计会有一批教师退休、研究生群体相对老龄化以及硕士和博士层次毕业生数量不足，吸引更多年轻学生进入护理研究生项目已成为该行业的当务之急。目前对于本科护理专业学生选择攻读护理研究生的原因的理解仍不明确。本研究设计了一项非实验性描述性相关性研究，并从安大略省西南部一所大型大学的四年级护理学学士学生中收集了87份可用调查问卷（回复率 = 67%）。本研究清楚地表明了学生对研究生学习的重视程度和研究生学习自我效能感（SE）对学生攻读护理研究生意愿的影响（R(2) = 0.52）。对护理教育的启示包括努力打造能提高学生对护理研究生学习的重视程度和自我效能感的本科课程。
