Resumen

GONZALEZ VELAZQUEZ, María Susana et al. A comparative study of the ways of making decisions in recently enrolled and advanced nursing students. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2011, vol.33, n.133, pp.134-143. ISSN 0185-2698.

The authors present a cross-and-comparative study about making decisions in the teaching-learning process on students who study nursing at the three nursing schools of the UNAM. The instrument used was the Decision-making Scale. The analysis was based on measurements of central and dispersion tendencies and the t of student for independent samples in order to compare the differences between recently enrolled students and the advanced one. Amongst the main results we observe that the ways of making decisions to which the students most frequently resort are not the most adequate and although there are differences between both groups (recently enrolled and advanced students) they are relatively trifling, although some of them are significant.

Palabras llave : Ways of making decisions; Nursing students; Nursing attention; Recently enrolled students; Advanced students.