What is the relevance of research for nursing students?

ABSTRACT

Introduction and objectives: The Bologna Process led to the reorganization of the education system into three academic degrees Bachelor's degree, Master's de-gree and Doctorate, differentiated by focusing on the research area only after the Bachelor's degree. The present study aims to understand the relevance of research in Nursing for undergraduate students. Methodology: Through a mixed descriptive-correlative investigation, the data was collected through an online form, sent via social networks. The sample is made up of 250 students, in the 4th year of the Nursing Bachelor's degree, from 17 higher education institutions in Portugal. Results and discussion: All students consider nursing research important, but 35.2% of the respondents are undecided about contributing to this area and 5.6% do not intend to contribute to it. It was also noted that, although 99.6% of the students reported they had a curricular unit associated to research, 53.2% of the students considered their ability to analyse a scientific article as "Sufficient". The relevance attributed to this component of research analysis is mostly evaluated as "Very im-portant" (42%). Conclusions: Most students value nursing research, and are interested in projects that contribute to the subject and to the development of their personal and pro-fessional skills, but there is a lack of incentive for investment in this area. It is also possible to identify gaps in learning regarding the analysis and interpretation of scientific articles. It is possible to conclude that in the educational system there must be structural and content changes to respond to the students' needs

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