Registered nurses’ preferences for rural and urban jobs: A discrete choice experiment

Nurses’ experiences of working in rural hospitals: An integrative review

“…Rural hospital nurses must be multiskilled and adaptable; they fill the gaps in health care caused by geographic isolation and lack of professional resources (Francis & Mills, 2011;Hauenstein et al, 2014). Despite the important role of nurses in rural hospitals, a nursing workforce shortage is ongoing (Fields, Bell, Bigbee, Thurston, & Spetz, 2018). Strategies to promote the nursing role in rural areas need to be investigated, particularly in terms of undergraduate nursing student exposure to rural clinical placements to experience the opportunities and challenges that it provides as a career choice.…”

Factors influencing the intention of Indonesian nursing students to work in rural areas

“…Meanwhile, the seniors tended to look at their choices to work in a place permanently or for a long-term period, so they decided on their job assignment carefully. This phenomenon can also be explained by the study of Fields et al , which mentioned that most nurses preferred to stay in their current job even when there is an offer to migrate to rural areas 16. In this study context, it is reasonable to expect that the regular students recruited from senior high school will be more interested in working in rural areas than transfer students who have passed their nursing diploma and who have worked for several years.…”

“…Besides the aforementioned factors, one study noted that nurses who were already employed were less likely to apply as a result of being recruited and moved to rural areas. They have strong preference for staying in their current job when there is an offer to migrate to rural areas 16. These findings lead us to consider nursing students as the study subject due to their broad career choice after graduation and their different working preferences compared with practising nurses 17.…”

Accessing rural health services: Results from a qualitative narrative gerontological study

“…The success to providing telehealth services includes being able to recruit and retain the required skill mix of health professionals needed to support the use of these technologies. Extant literature has identified that rural communities report high turnover rates in all health professional groups even though some communities offer financial and other employment‐related incentives …”

“…Extant literature has identified that rural communities report high turnover rates in all health professional groups even though some communities offer financial and other employment-related incentives. 12 The provision of health services to rural communities presents many challenges, and these have the potential to negatively impact the health of older people. To date, little research has sought the views of rural-dwelling older people about the issues they have in accessing health services.…”