Abstract
Aged-care nursing remains the least popular career pathway for young nurses, 3,7 despite huge efforts to showcase the opportunities and promote the value of working in this specialty. Various studies have explored why new nurses are not choosing aged care.4,5,6,8 Factors identified include preferring other fields of nursing, such as acute care; and feeling the need to learn certain clinical skills which aged-care nursing cannot offer.3,6 Another factor is new nurses having an impression of aged care that they do not openly admit to, nor discuss. This is the belief that aged-care nursing is not the dream job, is less stimulating than other specialties and only serves as the second – or even the last – option when no jobs are available in their preferred practice area.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 27\, 39- |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- gerontology
- nursing
- older people