Factors Influencing Career Decisions: Perspectives of Nursing Students in Three Types of Programs

Larsen, Pamala D.; McGill, Joan S.; Palmer, Stephanie J

doi:10.3928/0148-4834-20030401-07

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“…The importance of prior experience in healthcare for choosing the career of nursing has been reported by other international studies (Beck ; Larsen et al. ). It is noteworthy that the prior personal healthcare experiences of some Singaporean students were seen to affect not only their career choice but also their preconception of nursing as a profession.…”

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

Liaw

Holroyd

et al. 2016

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

Liaw

Holroyd

et al. 2016

International Nursing Review

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“…Students also feel unsupported in terms of making career related decisions. This highlights the need for early career awareness, exposure to practice, advice and support prior to and throughout the degree to help better decision making to improve satisfaction with career choice 37-39. It would appear that designing a comprehensive career support mechanism across the degree may be useful.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…a.Top of mind awareness measures the specific perception coming first in students’ mind when thinking of particular career pathways 39…”

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Course experiences, satisfaction and career intent of final year pre-registration Australian pharmacy students

Shen

Fois

Nissen

et al. 2014

Pharmacy Practice (Internet)

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BackgroundIn Australia, the profession of pharmacy has undergone many changes to adapt to the needs of the community. In recent years, concerns have been raised with evidence emerging of workforce saturation in traditional pharmacy practice sectors. It is not known how current final year pharmacy students’ perceive the different pharmacy career paths in this changing environment. Hence investigating students’ current experiences with their pharmacy course, interaction with the profession and developing an understanding of their career intentions would be an important step, as these students would make up a large proportion of future pharmacy workforce.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was thus to investigate final year students’ career perspectives and the reasons for choosing pharmacy, satisfaction with this choice of pharmacy as a tertiary course and a possible future career, factors affecting satisfaction and intention of future career paths.MethodsA quantitative cross sectional survey of final year students from 3 Australian universities followed by a qualitative semi-structured interview of a convenience sample of final year students from the University of Sydney.Results‘Interest in health and medicine’ was the most important reason for choosing pharmacy (n=238). The majority of students were ‘somewhat satisfied’ with the choice of pharmacy (35.7%) as a course and possible future career. Positive associations were found between satisfaction and reasons for joining pharmacy such as ‘felt pharmacy is a good profession’ (p=0.003) while negative associations included ‘joined pharmacy as a gateway to medicine or dentistry’ (p=0.001). Quantitate and qualitative results showed the most frequent perception of community pharmacy was ‘changing’ while hospital and pharmaceutical industry was described as ‘competitive’ and ‘research’ respectively. The highest career intention was community followed by hospital pharmacy.ConclusionComplex factors including university experiences are involved in shaping students’ satisfaction and perception of career. This may relate to challenges in the community pharmacy sector, job opportunities in hospital and limited understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. The results offer insight for the profession in terms of entry into various roles and also to pharmacy educators for their roles in shaping curricula and placement experiences that attract future graduates to defined career pathways in pharmacy.

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“…Previous studies have identified several influences on the decision to choose nursing as a career. These include family members and a desire to care for others [16, 31], exposure to healthcare environment through caring for a loved one, or prior hospital and/or work experience [31, 32]. However, these studies have taken a narrow focus either on students' characteristics, their decision, and influences at one particular time or on influences from the past.…”

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Using a Socioecological Framework to Understand the Career Choices of Single- and Double-Degree Nursing Students and Double-Degree Graduates

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Untested changes in nursing education in Australia, such as the introduction of double degrees in nursing, necessitate a new research approach to study nursing career pathways. A review of the literature on past and present career choice theories demonstrates these are inadequate to gain an understanding of contemporary nursing students' career choices. With the present worldwide shortage of nurses, an understanding of career choice becomes a critical component of recruitment and retention strategies. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an ecological system approach based on Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development can be used to understand and examine the influences affecting nursing students' and graduates' career development and career choices. Bronfenbrenner's socioecological model was adapted to propose a new Nursing Career Development Framework as a way of conceptualizing the career development of nursing students undertaking traditional bachelor of nursing and nontraditional double-degree nursing programs. This Framework is then applied to a study of undergraduate nurses' career decision making, using a sequential explanatory mixed method study. The paper demonstrates the relevance of this approach for addressing challenges associated with nursing recruitment, education, and career choice.

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Factors Influencing Career Decisions: Perspectives of Nursing Students in Three Types of Programs

Cited by 59 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

Course experiences, satisfaction and career intent of final year pre-registration Australian pharmacy students

Using a Socioecological Framework to Understand the Career Choices of Single- and Double-Degree Nursing Students and Double-Degree Graduates

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