A STUDY TO ASSESS THE SELF-ESTEEM AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS NURSING PROFESSION AMONG FINAL YEAR NURSING STUDENTS STUDYING IN D. Y. PATIL COLLEGE OF NURSING, KOLHAPUR

P ag e3 1 A STUDY TO ASSESS THE SELF-ESTEEM AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS NURSING PROFESSION AMONG FINAL YEAR NURSING STUDENTS STUDYING IN D. Y. PATIL COLLEGE OF NURSING, KOLHAPUR Mr. Praveen L. Subravgoudar* *Associate Professor, D. Y. Patil College of Nursing, Kadamwadi, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. DOI: http://doi.org/10.47211/idcij.2020.v07iws02.007 ABSTRACT Choosing a profession is a complex process affected by many factors varying from one country to another and from one culture to another. In addition to the properties of the profession and individual characteristics of the person, environmental conditions, political, economic, legal and systematic characteristics, luck, norms, and social values and attitudes affect one’s choice of profession. In choosing a profession, if a person is to adapt to the profession and to maintain a productive working life, he/she should have a positive opinion of and attitude towards the profession. Having a positive opinion of and attitude towards the profession plays an important role not only in fulfilling individual success but also in the development of the profession. Nursing schools need students who have qualifications appropriate to the nursing profession and display a positive attitude towards it. Therefore, to develop the nursing profession, nursing schools should educate students so that the students can have qualifications appropriate to the nursing profession and display a positive attitude towards it. Nursing students face many difficulties during their education process. A streamlined course consisting of a unified and comprehensive syllabus replacing different levels of courses, such as a diploma course, including Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) and General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM), and a BSc in nursing, should be introduced. Self-esteem is a person's Personal judgement of his or her own worth, based on how well behaviour matches up with self-ideal. The frequency with which a person attains goals directly influences feelings of competency (High selfesteem) or inferiority (low-self-esteem) self-esteem comes from two primary sources: the self and others. It is first function of being loved and gaining the respect of there. Self-esteem is lowered when love is lost when one fails to receive approval from others. Attitude is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterizes a person. They are complex and are an acquired state through experiences. It is an individual's predisposed state of mind regarding a value and it is precipitated through a responsive expression towards a person, place, thing, or event (the attitude object) which in turn influences the individual's thought and action. Prominent psychologist Gordon Allport described this latent psychological construct as "the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology. Attitude can be formed from a person's past and present. Key topics in the study of attitudes include attitude strength, attitude change, consumer behaviour, and attitude-behaviour relationships.relationships.