Abstract Background In Sweden, as well as in most industrialised countries, an increasing
older population is expected to create a growing demand for health care staff. Previous …

Background Negative perceptions about working with older people within nursing contribute
to the deficit of educators with expertise to teach student nurses, and nurses graduating ill …

jirwe m. & rudman a.(2012) Why choose a career in nursing? Journal of Advanced
Nursing68 (7), 1615–1623. Abstract Aim. This paper examines the prevalence of various …

Work experience has been a feature of the secondary school curriculum in the United
Kingdom for a number of years. Usually requested by the pupil, it aims to provide …

Background. Gendered views of nursing remain widespread. This study explores how such
views may influence student nurses' career aspirations. Method. A group of preregistration …

Aim. This paper reports a study to determine the perceptions of baccalaureate nursing
students towards clinical specialties and what factors influenced these perceptions …

BACKGROUND: As demand for nurses and other health professionals continues to outstrip
supply it is important to understand what motivates individuals to join a non-medical health …

This paper considers self-reported reasons for choosing to be a nurse and intentions related
to remaining in the profession. The data are drawn from a survey of Western Australian …

Chronic and recurrent shortages of nurses, coupled with the increasing demand for high
quality and motivated nurses and competition for secondary school leavers from other …

Background Determining the reasons people choose to study nursing may help educators
and managers develop student-focussed and enticing nursing programmes. In Australia …