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Who’d be a Nurse? Some Evidence on Career Choice in Australia

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  • Dockery, AM
  • Barns, A

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"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 career success. Some new insights into the factors influencing the decision to become a nurse further highlight the importance of perceptions of gender roles in society and are consistent with psychological and feminist approaches to career choice."

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  • Dockery, AM & Barns, A, 2005. "Who’d be a Nurse? Some Evidence on Career Choice in Australia," Australian Bulletin of Labour, National Institute of Labour Studies, vol. 31(4), pages 350-383.
    • Handle: RePEc:fli:journl:27714
    Note: Dockery, A.M., Barns, A., 2005. Who’d be a Nurse? Some Evidence on Career Choice in Australia. Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp. 350-383
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    1. Hanel, Barbara & Kalb, Guyonne & Scott, Anthony, 2014. "Nurses’ labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 94-112.
    2. Hicks, J. & Basu, P.K. & Latham, H. & Tyson, G. & Daniel, M. & Sappey, R.B., 2010. "Crossing the Great Divide: a Case Study of a Regional Nursing Labour Market in the Central West of New South Wales," Australian Bulletin of Labour, National Institute of Labour Studies, vol. 36(1), pages 84-102.
    3. Glory O. Onoyeyan & Vincent Unegbu, 2019. "Awareness as Determinant of Choice of Law Librarianship as a Career Among Law Students in South-West Nigeria," SAGE Open, , vol. 9(3), pages 21582440198, July.

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