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Introduction:<\/strong> Job selection is one of the most important decisions in peoples\u2019 lives. According to recent\u00a0studies there is not much interest in pursuing the nursing profession, despite the fact that there is a\u00a0shortage of nurses not only in Greece, but also in other countries worldwide.<\/p>\n Objective:<\/strong> Aim of this study is to investigate the motives of students who study nursing, towards their\u00a0decision to choose nursing as a main profession. In this research are investigated a series of items\u00a0regarding social, personal and employment aspects related to nursing.<\/p>\n Methods:<\/strong> The study was conducted in the faculty of Nursing, University of Athens. The data was used\u00a0included 348 questionnaires, completed by under graduate nursing students. Data collection took place\u00a0between January and March 2011, using a pilot questionnaire. Questions investigated potential motives\u00a0including willingness to take care of people, suitability with one\u2019s own personality, excitement for the\u00a0nursing profession, influence by family, existence of health problems in one\u2019s own family, easy employment\u00a0upon graduation, recognition of the importance of nursing, and finally expectations for a potentially good\u00a0salary.<\/p>\n Results:<\/strong> 16.9% and 46.5% of the students selected nursing and medicine as their first choice, respectively.\u00a0For most students (90.3%) the main reason they choose to study nursing is the provision of care. At a rate\u00a0of 84.8%, students selected to study nursing, based on their belief that they would be easily employed.\u00a0Once graduated, a rate of 43.4% would be willing to further continue their studies taking an MSc course.\u00a0The 29.5% would further continue their studies in another department. A percentage of 23.4% answered\u00a0that they were willing to find a nursing job upon completion of their studies, while 3.8% would find a job\u00a0in another sector.<\/p>\n Conclusions:<\/strong> Most nursing students are willing to work as nurses upon graduation, but there has been\u00a0recognised the need for further professional development, since many participants would be willing to\u00a0continue their studies, taking a masters\u2019 degree.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/strong> nursing profession, students choice, criteria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABSTRACT Introduction: Job selection is one of the most important decisions in peoples\u2019 lives. According to recent\u00a0studies there is not much interest in pursuing the nursing [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[2071,2073,2076,2072,2074,2075],"eidos-arthrou":[1807],"keyword":[2079,2077,2078],"language":[1841],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_2_5","tag-diomidous-m","tag-kalokairinou-a","tag-katostaras-th","tag-mpizopoulou-z","tag-mprokalaki-i","tag-zikos-d","eidos-arthrou-erevnitika-arthra","keyword-criteria","keyword-nursing-profession","keyword-students-choice","language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}