The effectiveness of a career efficacy enhancement program for KOREAN nursing students: A quasi-experimental study

Effectiveness of a professional identity promotion strategy for nursing students during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A quasi‐experimental study

“…The PIPS may help nursing students recognize the critical role that nurses play in protecting people's health and saving lives and promoting changes in their professional attitudes by encouraging them to experience the changes in the public image and the promotion of the social status of nurses (Zhang et al, 2021). This program also provides nursing students with professional information, career comparisons, and career arrangements to develop a correct perception of the nursing profession (Jung & Yoo, 2020). Moreover, researchers suggested that further research should implement resilience‐promoting skill as “protective” within professional identity formation (Wald, 2015).…”

“…Professional identity is closely connected with job satisfaction, turnover intention, and turnover behavior of nursing staff (Jung & Yoo, 2020; Niskala et al, 2020). Professional identity is defined as an individual's views on the goals, social values, and other factors of the profession (Nie et al, 2021), and the formation of professional identity is the result of the comprehensive interaction of individual internal and external factors (Y. H. Liu et al, 2011).…”

“…Nursing students, as the reserve force of the nursing profession, and their professional identity undeniably affects the stability of nursing teams (Xu et al, 2019). If students enter nursing with low professional identity, they have low job satisfaction and high turnover intention, which may accelerate their demission (Jung & Yoo, 2020). Nursing students' professional identity is formed during the period of professional education (Jung & Yoo, 2020; Sorrell & Ibrahim, 2020).…”

“…If students enter nursing with low professional identity, they have low job satisfaction and high turnover intention, which may accelerate their demission (Jung & Yoo, 2020). Nursing students' professional identity is formed during the period of professional education (Jung & Yoo, 2020; Sorrell & Ibrahim, 2020). At this university, the professional education of nursing students mainly develops from the sophomore year.…”

“…Therefore, pedagogical practice should take the establishment of professional identity as the explicit goal. Jung and Yoo (2020) developed a systematic career efficacy enhancement program for nursing students and examined the long‐term effects on career decisions, career identity, career preparation behavior, and career efficacy. Some attention has been given to exploring various measures to improve professional identity among nursing students.…”