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National Review of Nursing Education

Student Expectations of Nursing Education

A background paper prepared for the National Review of Nursing Education

David Saltmarsh
Sue North
Tony Koop

October 2001

This report was commissioned by the National Review of Nursing Education Secretariat

The substance of this report and the views expressed in it are those of the authors

ISBN 0 642 77250 9 (Online version)
DEST No. 6774.HERC01A

Table of Contents

• Student Expectations of Nursing Education
  • Profiles of the researchers and authors of the report
  • Dr David Saltmarsh
  • Ms Sue North
  • Dr Tony Koop
• Project Overview
  • Project objectives
  • Data and processes of analysis
  • Outcomes and results of the study
  • Reasons for choosing to study nursing
  • Presumed benefits of a career in nursing
  • Career aspirations
  • Lifestyle aspirations
  • Preferences of categories of student
• Findings from the Focus Group Research
  • Considering aspirations and expectations in nursing education
  • Factors influencing desire to study
  • Family and social background
  • Experience of nursing
  • Cultural representations of nursing.
  • Factors influencing selection of course
  • Proximity of a campus and low entrance scores
  • Promotion of nursing as a career
  • Pathways to entering nursing education
  • Construction of nursing identities
  • Professional
  • Desires and deficiencies mapped onto nursing
  • Students' views
  • Themes of presumed benefits of a career in nursing
  • Job security
  • Job satisfaction
  • Occupational skills
  • Working lifestyle
  • Professional recognition, status and industrial issues
  • Nursing a stepping stone to other things
  • Intentions after completing course
  • Under representation among nursing students
  • Themes among specific categories or groups
  • Female participants
  • Male participants
  • Recent school leavers
  • Those with nursing or allied health care experience
  • Mature age and those with other workforce experience
  • Students studying on rural campuses
  • Issues surrounding courses and the provision of nursing education
  • Course and teaching
  • Practicum experience
  • Institutional representations of the course
• Evaluations and Inferences drawn from Findings
  • The construction of nursing identities
  • Institutional identity
  • Attracting new nurses
  • Retaining students
• References

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