Determination of Student Nurses’ Learning Strategies and Styles

This research has been carried out in order to determine the methods and strategies of learning which have been used by the nursing students. This research has been conducted as a crosssectional research with 304 students who have attended nursing department at Bülent Ecevit University, School of Health. Data has been collected by a socio-demographic survey form and The Learning Methods Inventory, Evaluation Criterion of General Learning Strategies. Data have been evaluated by frequency, mean, percentage, one way Variance Analysis, Student t test, chisquare test and Kruskal Wallis test on the SPSS packet program. It has been determined that students have a more fitting (33%) and decomposing (29%) learning style. It has been determined that there are statistical significant differences between the gender (X^2=10.8; p=0.01) and the graduated schools (X^2=13.2;p=0.04) with learning style. It has been determined that students use attention (3.86±0.49), management of acquaintance interpretation (3.67±0.63), interpreting (3.68±0.50), memorizing audio (3.77±0.59), placing in mind (3.59±0.60), emotional (3.47±0.50) and repetition strategies (3.69±0.52). It has been found that there is a statistical significant difference between students’ place of residence, the habit of reading book and mother education level with learning strategies (p 0.05). It has determined that demographic features of students effect on the learning styles and strategies