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Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Intention to Choose a Public Health Career

Rachelle Larsen, LuAnn Reif, Renee Frauendienst · Public Health Nursing · 2012

AbstractObjective(s)To determine nursing students' public health career intentions, and to determine recruitment strategies and other factors that influence students' public health career intentions.Design and SampleDescriptive, correlational design. 354 junior and senior baccalaureate nursing students.MeasuresStudents completed a researcher developed survey about choosing public health career intentions and recruitment incentives.ResultsStudents indicated that they were likely or very likely to consider a career in public health immediately following graduation (21.1%), 1 year after graduation (26.4%) and more than 1 year after graduation (35%). Significant variables influencing career choice immediately following graduation were enrolling institution [t(3,340) = 2.66, p = .008] and traditional clinical site [t(3,340) = −2.306, p = .022]. One year after graduation, traditional public health clinical site [t(3,340) = −2.648, p = .008], and more than 1 year after graduation enrolling institution [t(4,339) = −2.364, p = .019] and gender [t(4,339) = 2.094, p = .037] were significant variables influencing career intentions. The top three recruitment strategies ranked by students were c

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