title: Integrating a Career Planning and Development Program into the Baccalaureate Nursing Curriculum: Part I. Impact on Students' Career Resilience.
abstract: Student nurses often embark on their professional careers with a lack of the knowledge and confidence necessary to navigate them successfully. An ongoing process of career planning and development (CPD) is integral to developing career resilience, one key attribute that may enable nurses to respond to and influence their ever-changing work environments with the potential outcome of increased job satisfaction and commitment to the profession. A longitudinal mixed methods study of a curriculum-based CPD program was conducted to determine the program's effects on participating students, new graduate nurses, and faculty. This first in a series of three papers about the overall study's components reports on undergraduate student outcomes. Findings demonstrate that the intervention group reported higher perceived career resilience than the control group, who received the standard nursing curriculum without CPD. The program offered students the tools and resources to become confident, self-directed, and active in shaping their engagement in their academic program to help achieve their career goals, whereas control group students continued to look uncertainly to others for answers and direction. The intervention group recognized the value of this particular CPD program and both groups, albeit differently, highlighted the key role that faculty played in students' career planning.
authors.forename: Janice
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Waddell
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Spalding
authors.forename: Genevieve
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Canizares
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Navarro
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Connell
authors.forename: Sonya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jancar
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stinson
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Victor
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D016730:Program Development; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*