Determination of Graduation Stage Students’ Opinions About Their Colleagues and Professional Expectations: Example of Paramedic Department

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine of paramedic students’ opinions about their colleagues and professional expectations. Method: The universe of this study consists of students who have the right to graduate in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years. The data were collected with a data collection form consisting of three parts, prepared by the researchers in line with the literature. The first part of the form consists of 7 questions about the demographic characteristics of the students. The second part consists of 11 statements in which students express their opinions about their colleagues as "good, moderate and bad". The evaluation in the department was made with a triple Likert scale in the directions of bad (0), moderate (1) and good (2). In the third part, there were 17 expressions (triple Likert scale) containing the options' I agree, undecided and disagree 'to determine students' professional expectations. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences program at 95% confidence interval, significance as p<0.05. Results: As a result of the study, the average score of students' opinions about their colleagues was 19.17±3.30 (good) and the average level of professional expectation was 33.16±1.58 (high). Conclusion: According to the study; It was determined that students' views towards their colleagues and their professional expectation levels were high/good. It should not be forgotten that although the students have good views about their colleagues and their professional expectation levels are high, there are expressions that they stated otherwise.

Keywords

• expectation
• opinion
• profession
• student
• paramedic