Nursing student’s enrollment profile. Iztacala and Zaragoza Superior Studies Faculties, UNAM

Abstract

Introduction: The University has as one of its tasks to better know the profiles and trajectories of students, so that supporting innovative and functional policies can be designed and implemented.

Objective: To analyze the profile of students enrolling into the Nursing Undergraduate System at the Iztacala and Zaragoza Superior Studies Faculty.

Method: Basic-descriptive study with freshmen students of the 2011-I generation of the Nursing Bachelors Degree program at the FES Zaragoza and Iztacala. the population was 600 alumni. A questionnaire was used to gather data. the instrument reliability was equivalent to a 0.875 Cronbach Alpha score. A SPSS ® database was created and data were analyzed through descriptive statistics.

Results: the 49% of the students came from the “automatic pass” format. the enrollment grade point average went from 8.1 to 9.0. For the 61% of the students, nursing was their first choice of major. the socioeconomic level of the students was low. the 76% of the students obtained a grade point average between 8.0 and 10.0 during all their freshman year.

Discussion: unlike other careers at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Nursing accepts almost 50% of the prospects from external schools, situation which does not occur in other careers. Although the majority of students who entered have a low social-economical level, they have other favorable characteristics for their school trajectory such as a good grade point average and that they were accepted in the career that they chose.