{"id":7401,"date":"2025-06-28T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/profiling-australian-school-students-interest-in-a-nursing-career-insights-for-ensuring-the-future-workforce\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:07:52","slug":"profiling-australian-school-students-interest-in-a-nursing-career-insights-for-ensuring-the-future-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/profiling-australian-school-students-interest-in-a-nursing-career-insights-for-ensuring-the-future-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiling Australian school students\u2019 interest in a nursing career: insights for ensuring the future workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Profiling Australian school students\u2019 interest in a nursing career: insights for ensuring the future workforce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1480' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1480\/229' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objective: Given that the current shortage of nurses threatens the quality of health care globally, we urgently need to find new ways to bolster recruitment. This paper aims to understand patterns and predictors of interest in a nursing career among school students in order to inform ways of ensuring a viable future workforce.<br \/>\nDesign: A four-year longitudinal mixed methods study undertaken in New South Wales, Australia.<br \/>\nSetting and subjects: Survey data collected annually (2012\u20132015), involving 6,492 students in Years 3\u201312 in government schools, wereanalysed using logistic regression. Focus group data (2013\u20132015) involving 553 students and open-ended survey responses were analysed to investigate reasons for interest in nursing.<br \/>\nResults: Significant predictors of interest in nursing included being female and having a parent in a nursing occupation. A \u2018helping orientation\u2019 and prior experiences with nurses or nursing were key factors underpinning students\u2019 interest in this career. Some students perceived nursing as a \u2018safe\u2019 career choice, balancing practical concerns, such as job security, with their desire to care. Other students expressed ambivalence, with nursing but one of many \u2018caring\u2019 careers to which they were drawn.<br \/>\nConclusion: Given that early experiences with nursing or nursing-related activities influenced the desire to pursue this career, developing new experiential strategies that engage school student interest are important for ensuring the growth and stability of the Australian nursing workforce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Gore<\/li>\n<li>Bernadette Rickards<\/li>\n<li>Leanne Fray<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Holmes<\/li>\n<li>Maxwell Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>aspirations, career, school students, nursing, nurses<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Profiling Australian school students\u2019 interest in a nursing career: insights for ensuring the future&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4387,2612,3894,3874,4388],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-aspirations","tag-career","tag-nurses","tag-nursing","tag-school-students","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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