Assess the Level of Attitude on Nursing and Nursing Education among Final Year B. Sc. Nursing Students in Selected Nursing College, Salem Santhi M.D.1,*, Manjula B2, Mohanraj S.3, Sandhiya S.4 1Professor cum HOD, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem 2Lecturer, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem 3Tutor, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem 4M. Sc (N) I Year student, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, Salem *Corresponding Author: Dr. M. D. Santhi, Professor & HOD, Sri Gokulam College of Nursing, No. 3/836, Periyakalam, Neikkarapatti, Salem-636010, Email: santhi_pooja@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract Nursing is unique among the health care professional in the whole world in that it has multiple educational pathways leading to an entry level licence to practice. The aim is to assess the level of attitude on Education & nursing education among final year B.sc nursing students. Descriptive research design was adopted and selected 51 samples through non probability purposive sampling technique. The tool consists of two parts demographic variables and attitude questionnaires regarding attitude on nursing and nursing education. The data was collected and analyzed by descriptive statistics. The result of the study includes most of the (60.7%) students belongs to 19–20 years of age, pertaining to gender (74.5%) students are females. Regarding the level of attitude towards nursing shows, majority of (70.58%) them chosen in the area of nursing as their life time career and nearly half of them (49.1%) expressed that nursing as a noble profession. In the area of Nursing present strength and weakness shows maximum (60.78%) of them said still need to join in nursing profession and in the area of Social Stigma for nursing 41 percentage of them said sometimes and Majority (47.17%) of them expressed that reason for choosing the nursing profession is due to service to community. Regarding the level of attitude towards nursing education shows, majority (86.27%) of them responded that nursing education prepares them to be an independent nurse and maximum (58.83%) were responded faculties play an encouraging and excellent role in clinical posting, highest percentage (74.50%) of them preferred mixed method of teaching and Half of them (50.98%) were preferred bedside clinic for clinical teaching and Maximum (43.13%) of them opted to be a bedside nurse after their graduation. Top Keywords Attitude on education & nursing education, Nursing students. Top |