Nursing Students' Employment Hope: Türkiye Example: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study

Objective: Today, unemployment has become an increasing problem. In general, the reason for attending university in our country, Türkiye, is anxiety about getting a job. The authors' aim was to investigate undergraduate nursing students' employment hope levels and determine factors affecting hope. Material Methods: this study, descriptive-survey research method used. sample of study consisted students who attended faculty public 2018-2019 academic year. Sociodemographic Characteristics Questionnaire, Employment Hope Scale Beck Hopelessness were used as data collection tools. Results: group consists 645 participation rate 59.12%. 53.5% preferred their own free will, 82.5% wanted improve themselves profession stay after they graduated, 89.3% worried finding analysis correlation between variable choosing by one's preference revealed that, though statistically not significant, positively correlated with 'psychological empowerment' subscale (p=0.067), significantly 'goal-oriented pathways' (p<0.001). Conclusion: It recommended provide participants guidance services on psychological effects methods cope these effects, gain them various perspectives view from different aspects acquainting fields are work graduation.