Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.24141/1/3/2/12
Attitudes of Nursing Students toward the Importance of Communication Skills in the English Language
Tatjana Badrov
; Technical College in Bjelovar, Nursing Department, Bjelovar, Croatia
Ivana Jurković
; Technical College in Bjelovar, Nursing Department, Bjelovar, Croatia
Abstract
Challenges posed in front of bachelors of nursing by the contemporary labour market, oriented toward the internationalization of knowledge, skills and competences, become more expressed with each new day. It is clear that future generations of nursing bachelors will have to face workplace requirements that may only be met through interdisciplinary approach in acquiring competences. Workforce mobility, geopolitical situation in Europe and the continual development of information technologies are only a few reasons why it is necessary for communication skills in foreign languages, especially English as a global lingua franca in business and science, to be included in nurses’ competences.
For identifying the attitudes of future professional bachelors of nursing toward the importance of communication skills in English, research was conducted among students of the Professional Study Program in Nursing of the Technical College in Bjelovar. For this purpose, a questionnaire was compiled that fully meets the research requirements. The questionnaire includes five parts. The first part involves general data about the subjects, while the second, the third and the fourth part contain five statements each about the importance of communication skills in English in the areas of speaking, reading and writing. The fifth part of the questionnaire contains three questions related to general assessment and self-assessment of communication skills in English. The results are described using the methods of descriptive statistics. Furthermore, inferential statistics tests were used for determining the difference between first-year and third-year students regarding their attitudes toward the importance of communication skills in English and learning English at college.
Keywords
English language; communication skills; nursing; students’ attitudes
Hrčak ID:
191055
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Publication date:
18.12.2017.
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