BACKGROUND The cultural norms of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia do not encourage men to choose nursing as a career. Understanding male nursing students' experiences of their clinical exposure to the nursing profession throughout their internship might increase their retention. This study explored the experiences of final-year male nursing students as they transitioned to the role of registered nur...

This work presents the results of the 2014 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession, carried out on behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in the UK regarding demographics, work status, working outside and within the profession, working within clinical practice, internet use, opinions regarding the veterinary nursing profession...

The aim of this study is to explore nurses' and patients' opinions about nurses in Poland going on strike. The study was carried out in Poland between January and June 2009, using 150 nurses and 150 hospitalized patients. The study was conducted using two questionnaire surveys. The main reasons why nursing strikes are organized, in the opinions of nurses, are: higher wages, the improvement of w...

PURPOSE To describe the development and process of consensus used to establish essential genetic and genomic nursing competencies relevant to the entire nursing profession in the United States (US) regardless of academic preparation, role, practice setting, or clinical specialty. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT Rogers' diffusion of innovation theory applied to the adoption of genetics and genomics as th...

S196 Nursing is a profession. Although the art and science has become more science than art due to advances in technology and regulatory requirements, the profession of nursing is among the most trusted in modern society. How do we continue to earn that trust and respect? One could argue that looking after our professional development through ongoing education and certification gives us the con...

Given the longstanding shortage of nurses in many jurisdictions, why could not nursing wages be raised to attract more people into the profession? We tell a story in which the status of nursing as a 'vocation' implies that increasing wages reduces the average quality of applicants attracted. The underlying mechanism accords with the notion that increasing wages might attract the 'wrong sort' of...

UNLABELLED This study aimed to further our understanding of the social representations of nurses and the nursing profession by communication professionals, since they are intermediates in the decoding of imaging and written representations about society. METHOD this is a qualitative study, based on the social representation theory of Moscovici. Five communication professionals working on radi...

Unless the nursing profession can manage to recruit and retain sufficient numbers of professional nurses, it might become impossible to render adequate health care to the citizens of South Africa. Many studies and much effort, have b een d ire c te d to w a rd s the recruitment of nurses. Much less has been done to retain these nurses once they have entered the nursing world or to recruit non-p...

The nursing shortage is wreaking havoc on the profession. Nurses report being overwhelmed by the workload and the lack of staff. Faced with understaffing and increased paper work, nurses are no longer able to provide the care they were trained to do. As a result, job satisfaction is being reported at an all-time low. Nurses are questioning the quality of care they are able to give to their pati...