Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin İyi Hemşirenin Niteliklerine İlişkin Düşünceleri Eğitimin Başında ve Sonunda Değişiyor mu?

Authors : Aslıhan AKPINAR, Rahime AYDIN ER, Mine ŞEHİRALTI

Pages : 196-200

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Publication Date : 2019-06-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Purpose/Aim: We aimed to determine the opinions of nursing students when they are in their first and fourth- year towards the ‘attributes of a good nurse’, and whether and how their views were changed. Patients and Methods: This study was conducted in the nursing department of a vocational school of health. In 2010/11 academic year, 88 first-year students were asked the following open-ended question: ‘What, in your opinion, are the attributes of a good nurse?’ The same question was asked to the students when they were in the fourth-year n: 77 . The attributes that had been specified by the students were classified afterwards into four categories: a Interpersonal relations and communication, b the sustaining of personal integrity, c the sustaining of professional integrity, d scientific knowledge and competence. The relationship between the students’ years of study and the attributes they specified was analyzed by a chi-square test. Results: 82 first year students and 61 fourth year students participated in the study. Students stated 594 attributes of a good nurse in the first-year and 387 in the fourth-year. They frequently 52.4%, 82.0% described a good nurse as having ‘professional competence’ both in the first and fourth year. However, when they were in the first and fourth-year, they mostly 49.0% and 42.6% described a good nurse with attributes related to ‘interpersonal relations and communication’. Students placed a greater emphasis on the attributes of ‘respectful’, ‘altruistic’, ‘patient’, ‘not attaching importance to material values’, and ‘loyalty to nursing’ in first year, and attributes of ‘empathy’, able to work in a team’, ‘responsibility’ ‘competence’ and ‘professional‘ in fourth year. Conclusion: While the emphasis on the attributes that are related to good nursing practices such as ‘able to work in a team’, ‘competency’ and ‘responsibility’ has increased; some attributes related to interpersonal relations and communication were decreased. Different educational methods could ensure maintaining, acquiring, and implementing important attributes for ‘a good nurse’
Keywords : Medical ethics, professionalism, nursing education, nursing students