Psychiatric mental health nursing: Career choice and longevity of African American registered nurses

Career Preferences among Nursing Students: A Cross-Sessional Study

“…Nursing students chose "medical and surgical nursing" as the favorite career preference was consistent with the previous study Kloster et al, 2007;McCann et al, 2010;van Iersel et al, 2016) and the reason may be due to not losing skill and more value with high-tech settings (Alexander et al, 2020; in clinical setting.…”

“…Over 50% Macao nursing students have ranked oncology and hospice nursing (18.9%), mental health nursing (17.1%), and ER nursing (14.7%) as the least favorite career preferences. Macao nursing students have almost the same preferences for ranking mental health nursing as the least (tenth) career preference ( Alexander et al, 2020 ; Delaney et al, 2019 ; Flaskerud, 2018 ; Rice et al, 2019 ). The mental health nursing might be considered less value than other nursing speciates and related to stigma for the mental illness in the society ( Flaskerud, 2018 ) especially among nursing students.…”

“…The mental health nursing might be considered less value than other nursing speciates and related to stigma for the mental illness in the society ( Flaskerud, 2018 ) especially among nursing students. Studies suggested nursing students have more experiences to contact with mentally illness persons ( Alexander et al, 2020 ; Hunt et al, 2020 ) to decrease the stigma of mental illness, that may improve their preferences for working in the mental health nursing after graduation. The clinical practice of mental health nursing is applied at the third year of BSN study in Macao, it might be considered adding more time in getting along with mental illness persons to promote nursing students’ better experiences in mental health nursing.…”

“…Many nursing students reported that the higher preferences for working with children and stable patients, but they chose the least preference for working in aged care centers ( Kloster et al, 2007 ). The gerontological nursing was rated the least preferred preference among nursing student ( Hovey et al, 2017 ; Hunt et al, 2020 ; King et al, 2013 ; Kloster et al, 2007 ; McCann et al, 2010 ), as well as the mental health nursing also rated the least career choice after graduation ( Alexander et al, 2020 ). On the other hand, ‘community health nursing’ was reported as “less popular” career among nursing students ( Larsen et al, 2012 ; van Iersel et al, 2019 ) for the views as “not real nursing” ( Norman, 2015 ; van Iersel et al, 2016 ).…”