Background: Nursing educators have a responsibility to build nursing students’ skills in physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion to care for patients in clinical settings. The purpose of this study was to survey nursing students in different nursing education programs at a technology university regarding their meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was adopted in this study. Purposive sampling was used. A total of 170 nursing students were recruited, including 61 3rd-year nursing students in a five-year nursing program, 55 1st-year nursing students in a four-year nursing program, and 54 1st-year nursing students in a two-year nursing program. A 56-item questionnaire investigated the students’ meaning of life (1-25 items), positive beliefs (1-11 items), and well-being (1-20 items). The content validity index (CVI) of the study questionnaire was established as 0.95 by seven expert scholars. The reliability values for the three parts of the measure were as follows: meaning of life, Cronbach’s α 0.96; positive beliefs, Cronbach’s α 0.93; and well-being, Cronbach’s α 0.95. Percentages, frequencies, means, SDs, Pearson’s correlation, and one-way ANOVA were used for the data analyses. Results: The study found that the students in different nursing programs had the following mean scores: meaning of life, 4.02 (80.40%) SD 0.56; positive beliefs, 3.92 (78.40%) SD 0.62; and wellbeing, 3.95 (79.00%)SD 0.57. Conclusions: Nursing students develop their meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in a way that allows them to promote physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health and ensure patients’ quality of life in clinical settings.
