Introduction.

Vocational guidance has a determining importance for the training of human resources in Nursing, because it helps to form professional interest.

Objective.

Characterize the vocational orientation of first-year Nursing students.

Method.

A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out at the “Enrique Cabrera” Faculty of Medical Sciences in the period from February to March 2023. The universe, which coincided with the research sample, was made up of 50 first-year students. ninth grade year 2022 - 2023. Theoretical methods were applied: analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction; empirical: student survey, statistics for obtaining, processing and analyzing the results. The study was approved by the Faculty Research Ethics Committee.

Results.

The predominant age turned out to be 15 years with 76%, there is a predominance of female students with 84%, 86% of the students declared not participating in vocational guidance activities to choose the Nursing career, 44% referred to the preference for the Nursing profession as the fundamental reason for choosing the career.

Conclusions.

The characterization of the components associated with the vocational guidance of first-year Nursing students allowed us to verify the poor work of vocational guidance during the teaching levels that precede university. The implementation of a system of actions aimed at strengthening vocational guidance for students entering the Nursing career is proposed.

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