Entrepreneurship among Undergraduate Nursing Students at a public university

• Main Authors: Rafael Marcelo Soder (Author), Caroline Egger Cordeiro Cechet (Author), Giovana Dorneles Callegaro Higashi (Author), Luiz Anildo Anacleto da Silva (Author), Thayza Mirela Oliveira Amaral (Author), Jouhanna do Carmo Menegaz (Author), Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann (Author), José Luís Guedes dos Santos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 1984-0446; 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1388
• Keywords: Job Market; Entrepreneurship; Students, Nursing; Education, Nursing; Schools, Nursing; Nursing; RT1-120
• Source: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, Vol 75, Iss 1 (2021)

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify undergraduate nursing students' entrepreneurial tendency at a public university. 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. 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. Conclusions: students showed low entrepreneurial tendencies, indicating the need for a broader approach to the subject in nursing education.