TY - JOUR
T1 - Attidutes of Hong Kong high school students towards the nursing profession
AU - Rossiter, Joh Chin
AU - Foong, Andrew
AU - Chan, Po Tai
AU - Bidewell, John
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the principal and teachers of Marymount Secondary School, Hong Kong; Hoi Ping Chamber of Commence Secondary School, Kowloon; and TWGHs Sun Hoi Directors College, New Territory; and the parents/guardians and students who volunteered to participate in the study. We would like to acknowledge that this study was funded by the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
PY - 1999/8
Y1 - 1999/8
N2 - The increased development of hospital services in Hong Kong over the last decade has given rise in the demand for more recruits to join the nursing profession. Despite the advancement in education and the improvement in the working conditions, the problems of attracting sufficient new recruits remain critical. This study aimed to examine high school students' attitudes towards the nursing profession and to identify the contributing factors affecting shortage of nurses within the context of Hong Kong. A convenience sample of 375 high school students was recruited. A questionnaire was used to measure their knowledge, attitudes and intention to study nursing. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to describe their career preferences and to compare knowledge, attitudes and intention scales between gender and nursing exposure groups. Results indicated that the students were generally knowledgeable about nursing but were reluctant to pursue nursing as a career. However, students who were socially acquainted with a nurse demonstrated a slightly more positive attitude towards nursing and slightly higher intention to pursue nursing as a career compared with those having no social acquaintance with a nurse. Implications for promotion of nursing profession and limitations of the study were discussed.
AB - The increased development of hospital services in Hong Kong over the last decade has given rise in the demand for more recruits to join the nursing profession. Despite the advancement in education and the improvement in the working conditions, the problems of attracting sufficient new recruits remain critical. This study aimed to examine high school students' attitudes towards the nursing profession and to identify the contributing factors affecting shortage of nurses within the context of Hong Kong. A convenience sample of 375 high school students was recruited. A questionnaire was used to measure their knowledge, attitudes and intention to study nursing. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to describe their career preferences and to compare knowledge, attitudes and intention scales between gender and nursing exposure groups. Results indicated that the students were generally knowledgeable about nursing but were reluctant to pursue nursing as a career. However, students who were socially acquainted with a nurse demonstrated a slightly more positive attitude towards nursing and slightly higher intention to pursue nursing as a career compared with those having no social acquaintance with a nurse. Implications for promotion of nursing profession and limitations of the study were discussed.
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U2 - 10.1054/nedt.1999.0331
DO - 10.1054/nedt.1999.0331
M3 - Article
C2 - 10693494
AN - SCOPUS:0033169208
SN - 0260-6917
VL - 19
SP - 464
EP - 471
JO - Nurse Education Today
JF - Nurse Education Today
IS - 6
ER -