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Article: Who'd be a nurse? Some evidence on career choice in Australia.
- Article from:
- Australian Bulletin of Labour
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Abstract:
In the context of on-going shortages of nurses this paper looks at factors shaping the decision to enter nursing as a career. Evidence from three different Australian sources is drawn upon." a national panel survey of young school leavers, a survey of first year university students in WA and in-depth interviews with 28 young women studying for their WA Tertiary Entrance Examinations. The results concur with previous studies that have found entrants to nursing courses to be of average-to-below academic ability and socio-economic status, to have an affinity for caring and to place greater relative emphasis on balancing family and work rather than on ...