Karagözoğlu, Şerife Cumhuriyet University - School of Health Science - Division of Nursing, Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Turkey , Türk, Gülengün Adnan Menderes University - Health School of Aydın - Division of Nursing, Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Turkey , Özden, Dilek Dokuz Eylül University - School of Nursing - Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Turkey

Autonomy levels of final year baccalaureate nursing students attending different curricula: Cross-sectional survey

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Objective: It is important for nursing students who will provide health care in the future to become professionals with high levels of autonomy. However, there is very limited information on this issue in the national or international literature. This study descriptive and cross-sectional design was carried out to determine autonomy levels of final year baccalaureate nursing students attending schools with different curricula. Methods: The study included 464 students studying in six different nursing schools in Turkey. Of these nursing schools, two have the classical education program, third have the integrated education program and one has the problem-based learning program. Data was collected with the Personal Information Form and Autonomy subscale of the Sociotropy/Autonomy Scale. Results. Of the students, 93.8% were female and their mean age was 22.73 ± 1.25. Of the students, 26.7% stated that they did not feel that they belonged to the nursing profession. The mean score students obtained from scale was 80.62 ± 16.75. Although the difference was not statistically significant (p 0.05), autonomy levels of the students attending the integrated program were higher than those of the students in the other two programs. Conclusion. As a result, if the total GA score to be obtained from the scale is accepted to range between 0 and 120, it can be said that autonomy levels of the nursing students who attended the schools with different curricula were determined to be higher than moderate, but lower than it should be. Therefore, it can be suggested that all the curricula implemented in nursing schools in Turkey should be revised and strengthened so that all the students’ autonomy levels can be developed.

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Nursing education , nursing students , autonomy , Turkey

Cumhuriyet Medical Journal

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