Abstract

SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ, Deysi L et al. Level of Motivation in Nursing Students. First Year of the New Pedagogical Model. Course 2006-2007. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.4, pp. 108-117. ISSN 1561-3194.

Teaching in Nursing in Cuba starts before 1959, and at that time scarce material and human resources were available, these being wrongly distributed and were not accessible to most of the population. With the Triumph of the Revolution new programs are designed and the formation of human resources in Nursing are more prioritized. Considering that the pedagogical work has as one of its objectives providing the students with an appropriate formation and vocational reaffirmation, being education the process of modification and primary behavior, it's natural for it to be starting point in the formation of these professionals. That is why, in this paper we aim at assessing the level of motivation of first-year Nursing students for their major. To that end, a retrospective, longitudinal study was carried out, randomly choosing a 93-student small sample out of the whole sample of 156, who were surveyed. The information was processed through the arithmetic percentage method and tabled whose results were that most students applied for their major as a first choice and stated that they applied for it out of vocation, being the subject of Nursing Guidelines which most helped to encourage this vocation.

Keywords : Motivation; Nursing Students; Vocational Education.

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