Health Commun.  2021 Jun;16(1):75-82. 10.15715/kjhcom.2021.16.1.75.

Factors associated with Nurse’s Character of Nursing Students

• Jung SY
• Park JH
• Park JY

• KMID: 2526463
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.15715/kjhcom.2021.16.1.75

Abstract

Background
: This study was to investigate the factors associated with nurse’s character of nursing students.
Methods
: The subjects in this study were 211 nursing students of 3 university, in 2 regions of South Korea. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires from March 2 to April 30, 2019, and analyzed using the IBM SPSS Win 25.0 program.
Results
: The significant predictors on nurse ‘s character of nursing students were nursing professionalism (β=.36), self-leadership (β=.34) and learning flow (β=.19). Theses variables explained 41.7% of the variance in nurse’s character of nursing students.
Conclusion
: These results highlight the importance of nurse’s character and can be used as meaningful data for intervention research to promote the self-leadership and learning flow.

Keyword

Character; professionalism; leadership; flow