Madhuri Tripathi, Neema Khampa, Preeti Bisht, Deepti Aswal, Vandana Gupta, Manisha Sindhwal, Sarita Kumari, Shashi Saini, Dipti Sorte
Most novice nursing students are Adolescent and Adolescence has been defined as a crucial period of cognitive, psychosocial and emotional transformation. One of the most influential determinations is family structure. An exhaustive review of resent research shown that family structure determines adolescenceâ??s academic and social development. In particular family structure bears important implication on adolescenceâ??s ability to lead a successful navigation through school and into adulthood. In essence, adolescence is made of self-definition, the biological and physiological development of a well differentiated, integrated, and realistic identity; and interpersonal relatedness, the emotional and psychosocial development of mutually satisfying personal relationships. Adolescence move from personalized school environment of familiar peers to a new and more demanding milieu. Students haves to establish their identities, including their sense of efficacy, social connectedness and academic, status within an enlarged, heterogeneous network of new peers and multiple teacher in rotating class sessions. Thus, this period is marked some loss of personal competence, control and self-confidence for adjusting to professional school. Psychosocial development of adolescenceâ??s is based on establishing their identity and achievement. For this purpose, they start their education from primary level, secondary level and then proceed to professional education for building their future. At this stage they face many confusions to which profession has to be chosen whether it is medical profession or non-medical profession such as MBA, Engineering etc. But due to encouragement of some family members, peer group they joined the specific professional education. In relation to nursing profession they face many adjustment problems to new environment. As in home they are having freedom to work, but in this profession, they have to live within multidisciplinary environment which creates sometimes initial anxiety.
