Publicación:

Level of resilience in nursing students doing their pre-professional internships at a university in northern Lima; [Nivel de resiliencia en estudiantes de enfermería que realizan sus prácticas pre-profesionales de una universidad en Lima Norte]

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. © 2023; Los autores.