ATTITUDES AND FACTOR THAT AFFECTS ATTITUDES OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS TOWARDS THEIR PROFESSION IN WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, GURAGHE, ZONE ,SNNPR ,SOUTH WEST ETHIOPIA 2021

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Nursing is an integral part of the health care system, encompasses the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care of physically ill, mentally ill, and disabled people of all ages, in all health care and other community settings. Attitude is a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person or situation. It influences a person choice of action and response to challenges, incentives, and rewards. Attitude of nursing towards their profession likes or disliking their profession or having positive or negative feeling towards nursing profession. OBJECTIVES:- To assess attitudes of undergraduate nursing students about their profession in Wolkite University, Gurage , Zone, SNNPR, and Ethiopia METHODS: - Cross-sectional survey was conducted from Dec 17- Dec21, 2021 on a sample size of 201 undergraduate nursing students, who were selected by stratified random sampling technique. The data was collected by using self-administered questionnaire from Dec 17 – Dec 21. It was be analyzed by using SPSS and the result was presented by text, charts& table. RESULT: This study revealed that 65.2% of the respondent have positive attitude towards nursing profession the rest 34.8%have negative attitude toward their profession. CONCLUSION: About 47.8% of students joined in to nursing department were due to design to help other. More than half of student‟s perception about nursing improved after joining the profession. Majority of students (57.2%) have information about Nursing before enrolling to nursing department. Factors like clinical training, relationship with friends, relationship with nursing staff, public view about nursing plays major role in development of ether positive or negative attitude. RECOMMENDATION Even though this research showed that majority of students had positive attitude towards nursing profession. Nursing professional status needs to be improved by educating the community. Pre nursing counseling and introduction to nursing course should be introduced by all the universities, to develop positive attitudes towards nursing profession.