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http://dx.doi.org/10.5932/JKPHN.2010.24.1.019

Factors Affecting Career Identity of Nursing Students  

Kwon, Kyung-Nam (Department of Nursing, Yeungnam College of Science & Technology)
Choi, Eun-Hee (Department of Nursing, Yeungnam College of Science & Technology)
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Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing / v.24, no.1, 2010 , pp. 19-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting the career identity of nursing students. Method: Subjects were 313 nursing students in Daegu. Consent from teachers and students were arbitrarily obtained. Mean, standard deviation, and regression determinations utilized SPSS version 12.0. Results: Career identity score of subjects was $31.79{\pm}5.78$ on basis of 56. Factors identified to be influential to career identity included time of career decision, self-evaluated career performance, satisfaction with clinical practice and college admittance. The influence of the factors on career identity was rated as 64.1% that is high value. Conclusions: The identified factors are important in determining career identity of nursing students. Further studies are needed to generalize these results and examine widely affecting variables of career identity.
Keywords
Nursing student; Career identity;
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