Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Sep 2021)

Entrepreneurship among Undergraduate Nursing Students at a public university

  • Rafael Marcelo Soder,
  • Caroline Egger Cordeiro Cechet,
  • Giovana Dorneles Callegaro Higashi,
  • Luiz Anildo Anacleto da Silva,
  • Thayza Mirela Oliveira Amaral,
  • Jouhanna do Carmo Menegaz,
  • Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann,
  • José Luís Guedes dos Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1388
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 75, no. 1

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ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify undergraduate nursing students' entrepreneurial tendency at a public university. Methods: cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, with 135 undergraduate nursing students from a public university in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected using a socio-professional characterization form and a General measure of Enterprising Tendency test and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: among the five entrepreneurial tendencies, students presented results equal or above average in two dimensions: Drive and Determination (82.2%) and Need for Success (51.1%). The Creative tendency was the dimension with the highest percentage of participants below the average (68.9%). However, students in research or extension groups scored equal or above average in all five entrepreneurial tendencies. Conclusions: students showed low entrepreneurial tendencies, indicating the need for a broader approach to the subject in nursing education.

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