Post-graduate Profiles of Nursing Graduates

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: It is important to know the nursing department graduate profile and to organize the mission and vision of nursing undergraduate education programs. The aim of this study was to determine the post-graduate profiles of nursing graduates. METHODS: The population of the descriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of 736 graduates who completed a nursing undergraduate program between 2001-2017. The study was completed with 273 graduates who could be reached and agreed to participate. The study data were collected by a questionnaire form created by researchers. Descriptive statistics and X2 test were used to evaluate the data. RESULTS: It was determined that 88.3% of the graduates were employed and 73% of them started to work in 0-6 months after graduation. 39.4% of the graduates work in the university hospital, 37.7% of them work in internal sciences and 78.4% of them work as clinician nurses. Graduates consider nursing as an ideal profession and have a positive perception about the profession. However, after graduation, it was found that those who thought the profession to be ideal and those with positive professional perception decreased (p <0.001). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The majority of the graduates work in public institutions. Graduates' perceptions of the profession changed after graduation and the perception of the profession decreased.

Keywords

• nurse
• graduate profile
• nursing education