Level of resilience in nursing students doing their pre-professional internships at a university in northern Lima

Asencios-Trujillo L.; Asencios-Trujillo L.; La Rosa-Longobardi C.; Gallegos-Espinoza D.; Piñas-Rivera L. · Health Leadership and Quality of Life (2023) · DOI: 10.56294/hl202329

Resumen

Resilience is a capacity for adaptation and coping that nursing students have during their pre-professional training period, therefore, the objective of the study is to determine the level of resilience in nursing students doing their pre-professional internship at a university in North Lima. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, with a population of 80 nursing students, who completed a questionnaire of sociodemographic data and the Connor-Davidson resilience scale. In their results, 14 % (n=11) of the students have low resilience, 21 % (n=17) medium resilience and 65 % (n=52) high resilience. In conclusion, it is necessary the implementation of psychoemotional support programs when students perform their pre-professional internships, since this allows the strengthening of well-being generates and thus strengthens their resilience.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle