Fatores motivacionais relacionados à escolha pela graduação em Enfermagem

Resumo (EN)

Objective: To evaluate the influence of motivational factors in the choice of the graduation in nursing. Methods: A study with cross-sectional quantitative approach, performed in a superior education institution in the city of Teresina (Piauí). As data collection instrument, a questionnaire was used with closed questions, applied to 87 students of first and second period of the nursing graduation course. The analysis was performed using descriptive and exploratory procedure. Results: The students were 79.3% female, 47.1% aged between 21 and 30 years old, 72.4% reported being single, 83.9% without children, 74.7% living in Teresina and 40, 2% with total monthly family income of about twice the minimum wage. It was observed that 96.6% of the students did not have another graduation and 97.7% were taking no other concomitant graduation to nursing graduation, the nursing was the first choice during the college entrance exam phase for 80.5% of the students and the personal fulfillment item was the motivational factor that drove the choice of 35.6% of the students for nursing graduation. Conclusion: Most academics chose nursing because they are, in fact, encouraged to exercise their professional activities, with the purpose of self-fulfillment, being this, according to the motivational theory of “Two Factors” by Frederick Herzberg, a motivational factor.