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- Title
台灣不同學制應屆畢業護生對臨床就業意願之探討.
- Authors
徐惠麗; 張曉雲; 章順仁; 郭倩琳
- Abstract
Background: The imbalance of nursing workforce is being a long time. The stress at nursing work and employment intention is one of the important reasons whether nurses will stay or leave a workplace. Little information is known if different nursing programs of graduating nursing students perceive excessive work-related stress, which may affect their employment intention after graduation. Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore expected work-related stress among different nursing programs of graduating nursing students and its relationship with career commitment, and the influenced factors of employment intention. Method: A cross-sectional study design using a structured questionnaire was undertaken in Southern Taiwan. A cluster convenience sampling method was used to survey 878 graduating nursing students who were enrolled in the last semester of academic year 2012, from two-year program, four-year university program, four-year college program, and five-year college program. Result: Over 85% of graduating nursing students intended to employ in clinical settings. Students from four-year college program scored highest in commitment to nursing whereas students from four-year university program have lowest score. However, four-year university students perceived the highest work-related stress, followed by two-year students, five-year students and four-year college students. In the three dimensions of the expected work-related stress, the "work task" is the highest score among all students. The significantly negative correlation has found between the expected work-related stress and career commitment. The predictors of employment intention are age, outside factor, organizational management, and four-year college program. Conclusions/Implication for Practice: Although the high level of nursing work-related stress existed, graduating nursing students are still willing to work in clinical settings with high levels of enthusiasm after graduated. It is, thus suggested that we should adjust a good organizational culture, enhance new nursing graduates' flexibility to work tasks, provide suitable mentoring to reduce their uncertainties, and enrich their commitment to nursing.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; EMPLOYMENT; INTENTION; JOB stress; ASSOCIATE degree nursing education; NURSING education; PSYCHOLOGY of nursing students; SENSORY perception; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; VOCATIONAL guidance; DIPLOMAS (Education); CROSS-sectional method; BACCALAUREATE nursing education
- Publication
Macau Journal of Nursing, 2015, Vol 14, Issue 2, p32
- ISSN
1681-1534
- Publication type
Article