Nursing students' vocation for nursing profession - A descriptive literature review
Kärkkäinen, Agnes Muthoni (2019)
Kärkkäinen, Agnes Muthoni
2019
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The worldwide shortage of nurses has led to evolvement of strategies aimed at solving this problem. This has led to an increase in research about nursing students, their attitudes, characteristics and reasons why they choose, leave or complete nursing programmes. On the other hand, nursing has greatly evolved, becoming more professionalized and thus causing a shift whereby nursing is no longer looked upon as a “vocation” or “calling”. This has mainly been due to efforts towards moving nursing away from religious and gender stereotyping. However, it is still important to find out how nursing professionals feel about the profession and what effect these feelings and attitudes have. The purpose of this thesis was to find out what is known about nursing students’ vocation for the nursing profession.
The articles were obtained from CINAHL and Medline, which are reliable databases. The initial search yielded 803 articles which were obtained through keyword search of the databases These articles’ headings and abstracts were scrutinized after which twenty-five (n=25) of them were selected for further consideration. Using a set down inclusion and exclusion criteria, nineteen (n=19) of them were excluded and six (n=6) included in this literature review. Three (n=3) other articles searched for manually after they were obtained from references of reliable articles were also included making a total of nine(n=9) articles.
According to the findings of this thesis, vocation plays a role in why students choose the nursing profession, gives them a reason to stay and fosters resilience which enables them to persevere during hard times and thereby helps students complete their nursing education. Students also viewed vocation as being important in applying professional values while practising nursing. There were also some students who denied the existence of vocation.
Only one of the articles directly investigated whether vocation was the reason nursing students joined nursing and there is therefore lack of enough direct research aimed at finding out whether nursing students have a vocation for the profession and how this influences the outcome of attrition, enrolment into nursing programmes or discontinue the programme. Further research into this area would enable stakeholders to come up with strategies to improve student enrolment into nursing institutions and probably reduce the rate of attrition.
The articles were obtained from CINAHL and Medline, which are reliable databases. The initial search yielded 803 articles which were obtained through keyword search of the databases These articles’ headings and abstracts were scrutinized after which twenty-five (n=25) of them were selected for further consideration. Using a set down inclusion and exclusion criteria, nineteen (n=19) of them were excluded and six (n=6) included in this literature review. Three (n=3) other articles searched for manually after they were obtained from references of reliable articles were also included making a total of nine(n=9) articles.
According to the findings of this thesis, vocation plays a role in why students choose the nursing profession, gives them a reason to stay and fosters resilience which enables them to persevere during hard times and thereby helps students complete their nursing education. Students also viewed vocation as being important in applying professional values while practising nursing. There were also some students who denied the existence of vocation.
Only one of the articles directly investigated whether vocation was the reason nursing students joined nursing and there is therefore lack of enough direct research aimed at finding out whether nursing students have a vocation for the profession and how this influences the outcome of attrition, enrolment into nursing programmes or discontinue the programme. Further research into this area would enable stakeholders to come up with strategies to improve student enrolment into nursing institutions and probably reduce the rate of attrition.
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