RE-EXAMINING ATTITUDE CHANGE IN STUDENT NURSES: CANDIDATE SELECTION VERSUS TRAINING PROGRAM VARIABLES IN THE FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES.
Contributors: Brigham Young University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which students change attitudes toward nursing. A refined and modified questionnaire from a previous study by Davis and Olesen in 1964 was developed. The results of the study showed there was no significant difference in attitudes of the student nurses tested, regardless of age or class standing. This investigator concluded that student nurses entered the nursing program with a previous adopted attitude toward nursing. Education or peer group influence failed to change that attitude. The recommendation of this investigator was to strengthen procedures of admission into nursing programs in a continued effort to choose the most competent and caring nurse candidates.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0091.

Thesis (ED.D.)--BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0022.