College students' image of nursing as a career choice

This thesis is a study of the image of nursing among college students. It has been inferred that the poor image of nursing negatively impacts on recruitment into the profession. A convenience survey of two groups of college students was instituted to determine the image of nursing in relation to an ideal career, and to discover if there are factors which make the choice of nursing as a career more likely. The responses of a group of 163 nonnursing students were compared to the responses of a group of 93 nursing students; This survey indicated that the image of nursing as a career choice among nonnursing college students correlated with an ideal career at r =.4072. Nursing students correlated nursing with an ideal career more positively (r =.5941) than nonnursing students; Nonnursing students identified their ideal career as consisting of four factors--knowledge, power, stability, and technical. They identified nurse career as consisting of five factors--activity, value, power, knowledge, and stability. Nursing students identified the ideal career as consisting of four factors--value, stability, leader, and technical. They identified nursing as consisting of five factors--value, knowledge, activity, technical and safety.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nursing

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1997

Author dc:creator

• Mendez, Diana Teresa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Margaret Louis

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/13

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1012