Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: This study was performed to clarify the process until transfer of students to nursing colleges and factors affecting this process. With consent, 12 female students at K Nursing College were interviewed. Until transfer of the students, there was a process consisting of “experience/incidents as motives”, “decision-making about transfer”, and “realization of transfer”. The experience/incidents as motives could be classified into 4 categories : “social rating of the academic background”, “failure in an attempt to go higher education”, “feeling of insufficient knowledge/techniques”, and “failure nursing practice”. The reasons for transfer to college included “longing and expectation for college”, “self improvement”, “recommendation”, “an increase in job opportunities”, and “as a place of escape”. The factors affecting the process from “decision-making about transfer” to “realization of transfer” could be classified into positive factors that allowed transfer and negative factors that made transfer difficult. Though students had negative factors preventing transfer, they overcame difficulties, being supported by strong motivation and will, and realized transfer.
Institutions: Tokushima University, Jikei University School of Medicine
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7208341507