Investigation of Senior Nursing Students' Views on Internship Program

Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the views of fourth-year nursing students about the internship program.
 Methods: The sample of the descriptive study was 96 nursing students. The data were collected Nightingale Intern Program Evaluation Scale (NIPES). 
 Results: In this study, nursing students' NIPES total scale score was 3.81±0.75, sub-dimension of the scale mean scores were 3.81±0.75 for "Professional Development", 3.83±0.78 for "Personal Development", and 3.96±0.89 for "Guidance/Counseling", 4.13±0.88 for "General Features of the Program", 4.03±0.87 for "Application Field Features", 3.80±0.97 for "Communication with Patients and their Relatives”. According to the presence of nurses in their first-degree relatives, the mean scores of the sub-dimensions "Professional Development", "Personal Development", "Guidance / Counseling", "General Characteristics of the Program", "Patient and Relatives" and "Communication" of NIPES were were statistically significantly different between the groups (p