Professional Self-Concept among Student Nurses (original) (raw)

Professional self-concept plays a vital role among nursing students enabling them to accept the profession and willingly render quality care to the patients in the future. This study aims to assess the level of professional selfconcept among student nurses and to associate their socio demographic characteristics with it. A quantitative descriptive survey was conducted using Cowin's Nurses Self Concept Questionnaire (NSCQ) based on six dimensions namely Nurse General Self-Concept (NGSC), Care, Staff Relations, Communication, Knowledge and Leadership among 169 students, of RNBSN Bridge and BSN program selected using purposive sampling technique. The collected data was analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 23) with differential and inferential statistics. In the area of professional self-concept, communication (44.4 + 0.38) and care 44.74 + 0.29) dimensions had higher mean among students of RN BSN bridge program. Among the BSN, students with self-concept (40.8 + 1.01) care (40.2 + 0.68) and communication (40.3 + 0.67) gained higher mean scores. Professional self-concept was found to have a significant relationship between student nurses age, marital status and the program of study with the subdomains namely staff relations, care, communication, knowledge and leadership (P< 0.000*).

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