Why not nursing? A systematic review of factors influencing career choice among healthcare students

Wu, Ling Ting; Low, M.M.J.; Tan, Khoon Kiat; Lopez, Violeta; Liaw, Sok Ying

doi:10.1111/inr.12220

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“…Altruism, the desire to care for or help others, was identified as a strong influencing factor for people who choose nursing as a career (Halperin & Mashiach‐Eizenberg ; Wu et al. ).…”

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“…With the above‐mentioned career decision‐making factors, nursing faces greater recruitment difficulties compared to other healthcare courses (Wu et al. ). Given the vast range of health‐related courses available, HEIs face considerable challenges in boosting the amount as well as the quality of school leavers entering the nursing courses.…”

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Why not nursing? Factors influencing healthcare career choice among Singaporean students

Liaw

Holroyd

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International Nursing Review

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Strategies for nursing recruitment in Singapore must include creating more opportunities for exposure to nursing in early school years, reviewing the admission policies for nursing programmes to attract academically abled students, ensuring that nursing graduates' salaries are comparable with other healthcare graduates, promoting a better understanding on the role of a registered nurse and its career developments, and providing support for those who are interested in nursing but are faced with career decision-making difficulties due to their families.

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“…Altruism, the desire to care for or help others, was identified as a strong influencing factor for people who choose nursing as a career (Halperin & Mashiach‐Eizenberg ; Wu et al. ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why not nursing? Factors influencing healthcare career choice among Singaporean students

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“…Caring means helping people with their physical or inter-relational needs, such as the need for company or understanding, and the provision of this care is the responsibility of the nurse (Quintero & Gómez 2010). The desire to help is a basic element of the profession and one of the key reasons for choosing and carrying out nursing studies (Ramió 2005, Buitrago-Echeverri 2008, De Cooman et al 2008, Price 2009, McLaughlin 2010, Jirwe & Rudman 2012, Halperin 2014, Wu et al 2015. The help that students refer to as a characteristic of the nursing profession also coincides with theoreticians' characterisation of the profession (Marriner & Alligood 2007).…”

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Contradictory views of nursing care among students at the end of their nursing education

Marañón

Pera

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim To understand how nursing students at the end of their nursing education view nursing care. Background Although care is understood as the essence of nursing, it is often difficult for nurses to provide care, which demonstrates a contradiction between theory and practice. Moreover, it is unknown to what extent this contradiction is transmitted to future nursing professionals or how they view nursing care and its practice. Design Qualitative ethnographic research. Methods The fieldwork was conducted between December 2010 ‐ May 2012 in a university nursing school in Barcelona and two centres where students carry out most of their practical education. The data collection techniques were participant observation and focus groups. A thematic analysis was used. Results The students demonstrated contradictory views of nursing care. On one hand, they voiced a more theoretical, official definition where care is considered the core of the profession. On the other hand, they also expressed a view where the provision of care is not nurses’ principal daily activity, a fact that did not surprise them. Students interpreted caring as an activity that has low value and that can be transferred unproblematically to other professionals. Conclusion The contradictory views of care reveal a problem in the transmission of the definition of nursing to new generations of professionals and reflect a problematic professional reality where there is dissonance between how nursing is defined and how it is carried out in practice.

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“…Career decision‐making is an intricate and multi‐factorial process (Wu et al ). Hence, the Nursing Career Development Framework (Hickey et al ) was applied to guide this study.…”

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Singaporean nursing students' perceptions of a career in community nursing

Lau

Ong³

et al. 2019

International Nursing Review

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Background The ageing population and the changing disease profile have been driving the demand for community nurses. However, few nursing students in Singapore aspire to have a career in community nursing following graduation. Objectives To explore undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of a career in community nursing and to identify strategies to promote community nursing among nursing students. Methods An exploratory qualitative design was used. Four focus group discussions were conducted with a purposive sample of 24 undergraduate nursing students from a university. Interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings Four key themes emerged as follows: ‘mid‐life career’, ‘limited career progression’, ‘a difficult transition’ and ‘international nurses‐dominated workforce’. Discussion While most participants rejected a career in community nursing immediately after graduation, they planned to join it at the later stages of their lives to accommodate changing life priorities. Limited career progression and increased difficulty in career transition from community nursing to acute care nursing were identified as deterrent factors in the participants' choices of community nursing as a career. Feelings of marginalization and a lack of role models in community nursing were perceived to be the result of the international nurses‐dominated community workforce. Conclusion Community nursing remains an underrated career. There is a need to foster an optimistic career outlook and mobility in community nursing to entice nursing students into this career track. Implications for nursing policy Strategies to enhance community nursing recruitment should focus on providing more quality and diverse community placement opportunities in various community care settings, implementing a clearly defined career developmental plan to elucidate the role of community nurses, and improving community care and cultural competencies to develop a skilled and diverse community nursing workforce.

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Why not nursing? A systematic review of factors influencing career choice among healthcare students

Cited by 96 publications

References 43 publications

Why not nursing? Factors influencing healthcare career choice among Singaporean students

Why not nursing? Factors influencing healthcare career choice among Singaporean students

Contradictory views of nursing care among students at the end of their nursing education

Singaporean nursing students' perceptions of a career in community nursing

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