Wei Li-Zhen, Zhou Shi-Shuang, Hu Shuang, Zhou Zhan, Chen Jia
Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Nurse Educ Today. 2021 Apr;99:104781. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104781. Epub 2021 Jan 20.
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.
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.
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.
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.
护理专业认同是护理教育和临床实践发展的重要因素。职业规划课程使学生能够有针对性地学习相关知识和技能，此外还能实现职业目标。评估和分析中国护理专业学生职业规划和专业认同的现状，可为改进职业规划课程的教学内容和质量提供重要指导。本研究旨在描述护理专业学生的专业认同，并找出护理专业学生的职业规划、实习经历及其他因素对专业认同的影响。
采用描述性横断面研究方法，于2019年12月对中国453名全日制本科护理专业大三和大四学生进行问卷调查。
护理专业学生专业认同的平均得分为101.42，处于中等偏下水平。护理专业学生的职业规划水平与专业认同之间存在显著正相关（r = 0.529，P < 0.01）。护理专业学生的专业认同还受到年级、年龄、对职业规划课程的接受程度等因素的影响。
结果表明，护理专业学生的专业认同水平与其职业规划密切相关。改善这种情况的一个策略是促使高校进一步关注职业规划课程的有效性，并提高教学质量和指导体系。
