Perception towards nursing profession, problem faced, resilience and clinical performance of 3rd year b.sc. nursing student in selected nursing college, Kolkata, West Bengal

Background: Nursing is an honorable and respectful profession. Because of poor perception towards nursing profession the student nurses often show undesirable behavior and want to escape from their assigned responsibility. Students confront stress and suffer from various health problems. Despite suffering they use certain coping strategy to themselves stable to continue the study. This triggers the researchers to undertake a study on those problems. Objectives: To assess perception towards nursing profession, problem faced by the student nurses, their resilience and clinical performance. Methods: A descriptive correlational study was conducted among randomly selected 90 3rd year B.Sc. Nursing students at selected Government Colleges of Nursing, Kolkata. Data were collected by using researcher developed demographic questionnaire, perception rating scale, structured problem questionnaire, resilience and clinical performance rating scale by self-reporting and observation. Results: The result revealed that 78% of the students had high perception towards nursing profession, 52% faced moderate problem and 53% used high resilience. Significant weak positive correlation found between perception towards nursing profession and resilience of (p = 0.04); perception towards nursing profession and clinical performance (p= 0.0004); problem faced and resilience (p= 0.0004); resilience and clinical performance (p = 0.006). Significant association was also found between the variables and few personal characteristics. Conclusion: Though perception towards nursing profession was positive but, nursing students faced various problems during their study period and they use positive behavior of adjustment to overcome those problems which help for good clinical performance.