Baccalaureate Students?? Images of Nursing

Abstract

In a replication at the University of Oregon School of Nursing in 1972 of a study conducted between 1960 and 1962 of University of California nursing students' images of their chosen profession, beginning students in both schools were found to hold similar views of nursing and of personal occupational values. Faculty at the two schools were found to be alike in their emphases. Selective changes in their conceptions of nursing were found to have taken place during the year of study regarding advanced professional, bureaucratic, lay, and traditional images of the profession. Students in the Oregon study arrived at a higher consensus of what they considered important in nursing, but neither group showed greater achievement in consensus of what they believed characterized nursing. The Oregon students were more able to reconcile their perceptions of nursing