Effects of Nursing Professionalism on Career Preparation Behavior, Career Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence in Senior Nursing Students

Abstract

Background/Objectives: This study was aimed to contribute the enhancement of nursing professionalism in the senior nursing students by analyzing the factors to influence their nursing professionalism.

Methods/Statistical analysis: This is a descriptive survey research to investigate career preparation behavior, career resilience, emotional intelligence, and degree of nursing professionalism in the senior nursing students and to find out the influential factors on their nursing professionalism.

Findings: The study results, career preparation behavior, career resilience, emotional intelligence and nursing professionalism showed the correlations, and the most influential factors on their nursing professionalism showed in the order of emotional intelligence, satisfaction level on their university life, education of nursing professionalism, types of career hope. It is necessary to develop and educate the programs including the influential factors to enhance nursing professionalism.

Improvements/Applications: It is required to have the opportunity to check the goals of nursing philosophy and to achieve the career goals by the analysis of nursing professionalism in the nursing students before their graduation.