Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part I. Impact on Students’ Career Resilience
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Janice Waddell
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Karen Spalding
Abstract
Student nurses often embark on their professional careers with a lack of the knowledge and confidence necessary to navigate them successfully. An ongoing process of career planning and development (CPD) is integral to developing career resilience, one key attribute that may enable nurses to respond to and influence their ever-changing work environments with the potential outcome of increased job satisfaction and commitment to the profession. A longitudinal mixed methods study of a curriculum-based CPD program was conducted to determine the program’s effects on participating students, new graduate nurses, and faculty. This first in a series of three papers about the overall study’s components reports on undergraduate student outcomes. Findings demonstrate that the intervention group reported higher perceived career resilience than the control group, who received the standard nursing curriculum without CPD. The program offered students the tools and resources to become confident, self-directed, and active in shaping their engagement in their academic program to help achieve their career goals, whereas control group students continued to look uncertainly to others for answers and direction. The intervention group recognized the value of this particular CPD program and both groups, albeit differently, highlighted the key role that faculty played in students’ career planning.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Council for the funding support for this research project. We would also like to acknowledge Gianina Gaitana for her longstanding and diverse contributions to the work of the Career Planning and Development research project. Thanks also go to the student participants for their commitment to this initiative. We extend our deep appreciation to Barbara Bauer for her excellent editorial support.
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- Frontmatter
- Using “Think Aloud” to Capture Clinical Reasoning during Patient Simulation
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- Making the Most of Simulated Learning: Understanding and Managing Perceptions
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- Identification of the Learning Styles and “On-the-Job” Learning Methods Implemented by Nurses for Promoting Their Professional Knowledge and Skills
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- Perceptions of Clinical Stress in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
- The Flipped Classroom: Fertile Ground for Nursing Education Research
- Student Engagement: A Principle-Based Concept Analysis
- Assessment of High-Stakes Testing, Hopeful Thinking, and Goal Orientation among Baccalaureate Nursing Students
- Partners in Research: Developing a Model for Undergraduate Faculty-Student Collaboration
- Nursing Students Achieving Community Health Competencies through Undergraduate Clinical Experiences: A Gap Analysis
- Student Perceptions of Quality and Safety Competencies
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part I. Impact on Students’ Career Resilience
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum. Part II. Outcomes for New Graduate Nurses 12 Months Post-Graduation
- Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part III. Impact on Faculty’s Career Satisfaction and Confidence in Providing Student Career Coaching
