DID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AFFECT ON NURSING STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES? A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 25 - 35, 21.03.2022

Fatma Güdücü Tüfekçi , Mehmet Bulduk , Veysel Can , Meltem Özcan , Serap Buztepe

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 on professional attitudes of nursing students.
Methods: The research was conducted as descriptive and time-dependent cross-sectional type of nursing students at a university in eastern Turkey. Students of the related department constituted the research population. No sampling was performed (S=242). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and Correlation tests.
Results: The general professional attitude in nursing students during the COVID-19 Pandemic period was found positively high-level, except the subscale attitude of choosing the profession with the subscale attitudes of professional characteristics and general status of the profession. While the general professional attitude, professional characteristics attitude and the attitude towards the general status of the profession in female and final year students was significantly the highest-level (p<.05), the attitude of choosing the profession was found negative in all students. A positive correlation was established between the levels of age and nursing education of the students and their attitudes of general nursing profession and choosing the profession (p<.05).
Conclusion: During the pandemic process, there may be other factors affecting the professional attitude of nursing students, future studies may investigate the factors that may be influential extensively. In pandemic and similar crisis situations, students can be empowered more easily by considering their age and education level.
Keywords: COVID-19, nursing student, professional, attitude

Keywords

: COVID-19, nursing student, professional, attitude

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