Factors Affecting Nursing Professionalism among Nursing Under Graduate Students with Clinical Practice Experience

Abstract

Nursing professionalism of nurses is to make decisions and perform tasks efficiently as professional nurses to solve problems in clinical settings. The nursing professionalism of nursing undergraduate students formed in theoretical and practical curriculums leads to the nursing professionalism of clinical nurses. To improve it is major issue to nursing students’ education curriculum. The study is a descriptive survey study to identify the critical thinking disposition, self-leadership, and nursing professionalism of nursing students who experienced clinical practice. The participants were nursing students from a local university in Korea. Data were collected by structured questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe’s test was used for post-hoc analysis, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and multiple regression with SPSS/WIN Statistics 22.0. According to the general characteristics, critical thinking disposition was revealed significant differences with respect to gender and personality. Self-leadership was found to present significant differences with respect to grade and religion. Nursing professionalism showed significant differences in grade, personality and thoughts on nursing profession. Nursing professionalism had a significant positive correlation with critical thinking disposition and self-leadership, and there was also a significant positive correlation between critical thinking disposition and self-leadership. As a result of analyzing the factors affecting nursing professionalism, critical thinking disposition and self-leadership had a significant effect on the nursing professionalism of nursing students. The regression model was statistically significant, and its explanatory power was 45.4%.The results revealed that nursing professionalism is related to critical thinking disposition and self-leadership and that they are the primary factors in forming nursing professionalism. So,It’s necessary efforts to improve them.