Entrepreneurship among Undergraduate Nursing Students at a public university.

Authors :: Soder RM
Cechet CEC
Higashi GDC
Silva LAAD
Amaral TMO
Menegaz JDC
Erdmann AL
Santos JLGD
Source :: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2021 Sep 29; Vol. 75 (1), pp. e20201388. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 29 (Print Publication: 2021).
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: Objectives: to identify undergraduate nursing students' entrepreneurial tendency at a public university.<br />Methods: cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, with 135 undergraduate nursing students from a public university in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected using a socio-professional characterization form and a General measure of Enterprising Tendency test and analyzed using descriptive statistics.<br />Results: among the five entrepreneurial tendencies, students presented results equal or above average in two dimensions: Drive and Determination (82.2%) and Need for Success (51.1%). The Creative tendency was the dimension with the highest percentage of participants below the average (68.9%). However, students in research or extension groups scored equal or above average in all five entrepreneurial tendencies.<br />Conclusions: students showed low entrepreneurial tendencies, indicating the need for a broader approach to the subject in nursing education.