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      Exploring career choices of specialist nurse students: Their decision‐making motives. A qualitative study

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          Abstract

          Aims

          To explore Registered Nurses' motives to undergo specialist training and to choose a particular speciality.

          Design

          A descriptive qualitative interview study.

          Methods

          Semi‐structured interviews were conducted during 2021 with 20 Swedish specialist nurse students from different specialisation areas. Qualitative content analysis was used. The COREQ checklist was used to report the study.

          Results

          Specialist nurse students' motivations for further training were divided into three main categories with two sub‐categories each. The main categories were ‘toward new challenges and conditions in work life’, ‘contributions to the development and higher competencies in health care’ and ‘personal work and life experiences as ground for choice’.

          Conclusion

          Our study demonstrates the importance of motivating factors in the career choices of Specialist nurse students, such as personal challenges, desirable working conditions, career growth opportunities and personal experiences in the career choices. Creating a supportive work environment that helps to prioritise work‐life balance and offers the development of new skills might help retain nurses.

          No Patient or Public Contribution

          No patient or public contribution was used. However, if more nurses would choose to undergo specialist training, especially in areas facing significant shortages, it would most likely lead to improved health‐related outcomes for patients or populations.

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                Contributors
                Annika Tiliander:
                ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-9515
                annika.tiliander@ki.se
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nurs Open
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Nurs Open
                Journal ID (doi): 10.1002/(ISSN)2054-1058
                Journal ID (publisher-id): NOP2
                Title: Nursing Open
                Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                ISSN (Electronic): 2054-1058
                Publication date (Electronic): 20 July 2024
                Publication date Collection: July 2024
                Volume: 11
                Issue: 7 ( doiID: 10.1002/nop2.v11.7 )
                Electronic Location Identifier: e2241
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden
                [ 2 ] Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden
                Author notes
                [*] [* ] Correspondence

                Annika Tiliander, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

                Email: annika.tiliander@ 123456ki.se

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-9515
                Article
                Publisher ID: NOP22241 Other ID: NOP-2024-Jan-0117
                DOI: 10.1002/nop2.2241
                PMC ID: 11259742
                PubMed ID: 39032132
                SO-VID: ff0a6627-0615-4a0d-87f7-dae1bddccd7e
                Copyright © © 2024 The Author(s). Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
                License:

                This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

                History
                Date received : 16 January 2024
                Date accepted : 07 June 2024
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 3, Pages: 11, Words: 7400
                Funding
                Funded by: Region Stockholm ALF projekt
                Award ID: RS2019‐1089
                Categories
                Subject: Empirical Research Qualitative
                Subject: Empirical Research Qualitative
                Custom metadata
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                cover-date July 2024
                details-of-publishers-convertor Converter:WILEY_ML3GV2_TO_JATSPMC version:6.4.5 mode:remove_FC converted:20.07.2024

                Keywords: career choice,decision‐making,nurse specialists,specialisation,training
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                Keywords: career choice, decision‐making, nurse specialists, specialisation, training

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