A Study to Assess the Opinion regarding Pursuing Jobs in Nursing Profession among Outgoing Student Nurses in a Selected College of Nursing in New Delhi

Abstract

Nursing is a profession within the healthcare sector which focuses on the care of individuals, families and communities, so that they may attain, maintain or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses represent the largest share of the total workforce in India. Globally, health systems are experiencing major shifts in health sectors and creating an increasingly diverse yet interconnected world. Nurses are health professionals who are the corner stone of healthcare system in each country. Most of the students decide to join nursing profession because they had a desire to help others and nursing was perceived as a caring and serving humanity job, acute shortage of nurses and growing demand of nurses worldwide. number of nurses demand of nursing in India. Career options in nursing include staff nurses who provide direct patient care to one patient or a group of patients. Teaching in nursing includes planning, teaching and supervising the learning experiences for students that include tutors, clinical instructors, senior tutors, associate professors and professors in nursing; nursing administrative positions at the state level include deputy directors of nursing at the state health directorate. Descriptive Research Design was adopted for the present study and the study was conducted in Rufaida College of Nursing, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. The population for the present study comprised outgoing student nurses of Rufaida College of Nursing, Jamia Hamdard. The sample of the present study comprised 73 students of B.Sc. (H) Nursing 4th year, Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing 2nd year and DGNM 3rd year. Results showed that the majority of student nurses (63.01%) had uncertain opinion regarding pursuing jobs in nursing profession; 32.8% of student nurses had a favorable opinion regarding pursuing jobs in nursing profession and 4.05% of student nurses had unfavorable opinion regarding pursuing jobs in nursing profession. The students had mean opinion score (23.9) for perception towards nursing profession and modified mean for perception is 1.33. This shows that student nurses had highly favorable opinion for perception, following preference of nursing profession with mean opinion score (15.45), modified mean (1.28) and had least favorable opinion for nursing profession with mean opinion score (15.79) and modified mean (1.05). The opinion score (18.8) regarding pursuing jobs in nursing profession of DGNM 3rd year student nurses was high, followed by a mean score (18.7) of B.Sc. (Hons) Nursing 4th year student nurses, and mean score of Post Basic Nursing 2nd year student nurses was 17.8.