Factors Influencing Nursing Students' Choices of a Place of Employment

Sun Ju You; Jong Kyung Kim; Myun Sook Jung; Se Young Kim; Eun Kyung Kim

doi:10.15384/kjhp.2018.18.4.184

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You, Kim, Jung, Kim, and Kim: Factors Influencing Nursing Students' Choices of a Place of Employment

Original Article

Korean Journal of Health Promotion 2018;18(4):184-193.

Published online: December 31, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15384/kjhp.2018.18.4.184

Factors Influencing Nursing Students' Choices of a Place of Employment

Sun Ju You¹, Jong Kyung Kim²

, Myun Sook Jung³, Se Young Kim⁴, Eun Kyung Kim⁵

¹Department of Nursing, Mokpo National University, Muan, Korea.

²College of Nursing, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea.

³College of Nursing, Institute of Health Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea.

⁴Department of Nursing, Changwon National University, Changwon, Korea.

⁵Department of Nursing Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

Corresponding author: Jong Kyung Kim, PhD, RN. College of Nursing, Dankook University, 119 Dandae-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan 31116, Korea.
Tel: +82-41-550-3893, Fax: +82-41-559-7902, jongkimk@dankook.ac.kr

Received August 08, 2018 Revised September 30, 2018 Accepted October 04, 2018

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ABSTRACT

Background

Despite increasing the number of newly licensed nurses across Korea, shortages caused by geographical imbalances remains a significant concern. Therefore, understanding nursing students' attitudes to working and living, factors influencing where they first choose to work after graduation is useful in formulating appropriate interventions to retain nurses in regional areas.

Methods

A total of 329 senior nursing students from areas outside Metropolitan Seoul completed self-report questionnaires. Data were analyzed using t-test, chi-square test and multiple logistic regression analysis.

Results

Of the respondents, 57.8% reported that they planned to work in the region in which their school was located. The three factors ranked as having the greatest influence on their decision to work in non-metropolitan regions were: the cost of living, housing costs, and the proximity to family. Enjoyable aspects of rural life contributed positively to students' intentions to work in non-metropolitan regions, whereas isolation and socialization problems negatively affected their intentions to work in such areas.

Conclusions

Greater consideration should be given to improving working conditions and housing environments in non-metropolitan regions.

Keywords: Nursing students, Rural hospitals, Employment

This Research was supported (in part) by Research Funds of Mokpo National University in 2016.

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