I Want to Become a Registered Nurse as a Non-Traditional, Returning, Evening, and Adult Student in a Community College: A Study of Career-Changing Nursing Students

Abstract

The current significant human resource and workforce shortages of registered nurses (RNs) are impacting urban, suburban, and rural hospitals and healthcare facilities all over the globe, regardless of the entities’ economic and financial backgrounds. The purpose of this research study is to understand why non-traditional, returning, evening, and adult (NTREA) students decided to enrol at the Associate Degree in Nursing programme during their mid-adulthood? 40 s-career nursing students who are pursuing their nursing programme were invited to individual interview sessions and focus group activities on sharing and expressing the motivations in the New England region in the United States. Based on the theoretical framework of Social Cognitive Career Theory, the researcher concluded that family consideration and higher social status were two of the major themes. The study provided a blueprint for human resource professionals, health and social caring leaders, government agencies, policymakers, and researchers to reform their current nursing curriculum and health workforce policy to attract potential second-career nursing joining the nursing profession.

Motivations and Career Decisions in Occupational Therapy Course: A Qualitative Inquiry of Asia-Pacific International Students in Australia

“…Given the higher fees charged to international students, a foreign degree path is very expensive for many families. With the reflection of some previous studies, 19,56,57 financial considerations bore an important role in these participants' decision to study abroad.…”

“…[16][17][18] However, secondary school graduates and professionals choosing a second career continue to follow more popular professional routes such as nursing, physical therapy, and public health. 19,20 Although members of the general public need additional time to understand each health discipline's background and operation, the Australian government has continued to establish schemes to alleviate the human resources shortages in the health and social care system. 21 Based on The Bradley Review, Australian government agencies and university leaders both advocated that university departments significantly expand in order to serve the increasing student population 22 better.…”

I Want to Teach Sustainable Development in My English Classroom: A Case Study of Incorporating Sustainable Development Goals in English Teaching

“…It offers an opportunity to reflect on the assumptions of the previous studies that language teachers were generally demotivated in ESD and provided insights on how and why they could be motivated [3,10,11,14,123]. Thus, further research can be expanded to a larger scale involving a greater population [84,124]. For instance, multiple case studies can be done internationally to shed light on the development of teachers' motivation within a different social and cultural context [23,88,125].…”

Developing Bilingualism in Nursing Students: Learning Foreign Languages beyond the Nursing Curriculum

“…Social cognitive career theory was employed to investigate the motivations and reasons for taking foreign language courses beyond the major curriculum and coursework plans of community college students majoring in nursing. Social cognitive career theory is a useful theory to understand the problems and social phenomenon, including students’ university major selection [ 34 ], doctoral candidates’ learning behaviours [ 35 ], the mental and psychological well-being of professionals [ 36 ], first-generation college students’ behaviours [ 37 ], adolescent’s understanding about their personal choice and selection [ 38 ], and second career-changing professional [ 39 ]. As the nature of social cognitive career theory is useful for interdisciplinary studies [ 36 , 40 , 41 ], the researcher may employ this theory to the problem of foreign language learning among community college students in the United States [ 39 ].…”