Career desirability: Young people's perceptions of nursing as a career

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1342-1350

  Hemsley Brown, Jane ^a   Foskett, Nicholas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career; Choice; Human resource planning; Labour market; Nursing, recruitment; Role; Shortages; Workforce

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CAREER CHOICE; CHILD; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING; PILOT PROJECTS; STUDENTS;

EID: 0033141486     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.01020.x     Document Type: Article

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