Professional Socialization among Nursing Students

Abstract

Objective : The objectives of our study is to determine the professional socialization among nursing students, to find out the association between professional socialization and demographic characteristics and to find the subgroup comparison of level of professional socialization among outgoing batch students and first year B.Sc. nursing students Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted among all four years of nursing students of a private nursing college. Nursing students who meet the inclusion criteria (357) were selected using purposive sampling. Results:The majority of the students are 'Experts' in maintaining professional socialization. But in the subgroup comparison of level of Professional socialization among the final year students with first year showed a 1.1% less in 'Expert' category. The results showed a significant association of level of professional socialization with 'Gender', 'Mode of Admission' and 'Reason for selecting nursing as a profession' Conclusion:The need for developing professional socialization has to be considered at the most priority. The results of this study shows the need for introducing new plans to make sure that the students level of socialization