The Perception Of Senior High School Students in Banyumas District Towards Profession and Education of Nursing Bachelor
Abstract: The profession of
Nursing has declared its self as an independent profession in National nursing
Workshop in 1983. Nursing profession nowadays is still in the process of
professionalism. One effort to support the professionalism of nursing is by
carried out a bachelor degree of nursing in universities. The student of senior
high school as a row input of bachelor degree of nurse, probably has particular
perception about profession and education of nursing bachelor. The Purpose of
this research was to find out a description about perception of senior high
school students in third grade towards profession and education of nursing
bachelor.
This research was using a descriptive method. Populations of research
were all students of senior high school third grade in banyumas district,
annual period of 2005 / 2006. Samples were taken by grade random sampling
according groups proportionally. Instrument that used to measure the perception
was a stuctured questionnaire with Likert scale. The instrument was tested for
its reliability and validity. Questionnaire composed with 11 items covering the
matter of nursing profession, and 4 items for education of nursing bachelor.
The answer of each items furthermore being counted with percentage. Each score
was divided with the highest score, then the percentage of each item was
consulted with evaluation category by Arikunto (1996).
The Result of this research showed that the perception of senior high
school students in banyumas district towards profession of nurse, was enough
(70,7%). Meanwhile, the perception towards education of nursing bachelor was
either enough (71,8%). The conclusion was that the perception of senior high
school at third grade in yogyakarta district annual period 2005 / 2006 was good
enough.
Penulis: Handoyo, Ridlwan
Kamaluddin, Wahyu Ekowati
Kode Jurnal: jpkeperawatandd060003
