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Choosing a Nursing Career During a Global Health Event: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
Rinat Avraham1, Oren Wacht, Eli Yaffe
1Departments of Nursing (Drs Avraham and Grinstein-Cohen) and Emergency Medicine (Drs Wacht and Yaffe), Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; and Magen David Adom, Israel (Drs Wacht and Yaffe).
Background:
Although in the past, the decision to enter the nursing profession was mainly due to intrinsic motives, more recent generations present additional extrinsic career choice motives. The motivation of choosing a nursing career may be affected by global health events, such as COVID-19.
Purpose:
To examine the motivation for choosing a nursing career during COVID-19.
Methods:
A repeated cross-sectional study was conducted among 211 first-year nursing students at a university in Israel. A questionnaire was distributed during 2020 and 2021. Linear regression evaluated the motives that predict choosing a nursing career during COVID-19.
Results:
Intrinsic motives were the leading motives for choosing a nursing career in a univariate analysis. A multivariate linear model revealed that choosing a nursing career during the pandemic was associated with extrinsic motives (β= .265, P < .001). Intrinsic motives did not predict choosing a nursing career during COVID-19.
Conclusion:
Reassessment of motives among candidates may help the efforts of faculty and nursing to recruit and retain nurses in the profession.
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