The factors that affects student nurses' occupation choices

This study, has made for the detecting factors of student nurses career also choosing. At the intel gathering stage, student nurses opinion about nursing career also examined. Changes in the perception of the nursing profession that is patient care has been demonstrated.Since the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale, the evolution of nursing, developed functions, accountabilities, status, the image of society about nursing and the factors of career choosing are touched in this thesis. Historical evolution of nursing, attributes of profession, the way of progress in earning professions are deeply examined. The research has made with sample method, the students of 1th and 2th grade ''14 Mart Anatolian Medical Vocational High Scholl" 152 of 180 students are participated in this research. When the data is evaluated, we have seen that the %75.2 of the students are female and the %24.3 are male. The %88.8 of the students are specified that they have informed from external sources before choosing this profession. When they opinion examined about profession before they had started the education, we have seen that the %57.9 were positive, %44.4 of the students said that, they chose this profession because this was their goal, %72,8 of the students said that they doesn't have any anxiety about finding a job, %73.7 of student specified that they wants to do that job in the future. Opinion change of the society and the nurses about being a nurse caused positive reactions in the image of nursing. In the choice of nursing profession was playing a role apart from individuals but now it has been determined that their own requests take part in their choice. Key Words : Student, Nursing, Choice of Profession, Student Nurse