Discovering the Multiple Intelligences of Student-Nurses in Selected Nursing Schools in the Philippines

Abstract

This descriptive-correlational study aims to discover the level of multiple intelligences of the nursing students in selected nursing schools as perceived by the two groups of respondents with respect to the different multiple intelligences indicator. There were 700 students who participated in the study from two higher education institutions that offer BS Nursing program which include Tomas del Rosario College and Asia Pacific College of Advance Studies. They were selected using stratified random sampling technique. To test the significant difference between the perceptions of the nursing student-respondents on the levels of multiple intelligence of the nursing students’ in selected nursing schools in Bataan, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. It was revealed in the study that  majority of the students-respondents belong to the 16 years old bracket, second year college and female nursing students. The student-respondents assessment on the levels of multiple intelligences of the nursing students in selected nursing schools found to be above average in the four specific areas namely; musical strength, verbal strength, intrapersonal strength, and visual strength, while on the logical strength, interpersonal strength, and kinesthetic strength the nursing students found to be average. In the light of findings and conclusions of the study, it was recommended that students should understand how to look into themselves and become aware on the significance of learning and developing their skills. Students should know themselves more fully in order for them to overcome the difficulties involves in attaining knowledge in order for them to learn.