Profiling Australian school students' interest in a nursing career: insights for ensuring the future workforce.
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...
| Published in: | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 12 - 23 |
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Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation
Dec2017-Feb2018
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