Recruiting middle school students into nursing: An integrative review.
Middle school students interested in nursing need clarification of the nursing role. Students choose nursing as a career because they want to help others, yet they are often unaware of the need to for arduous secondary education preparation to become a nurse. Middle school students, if not properly exposed to the career during their formative years, may choose another career or not have enough time for adequate nursing school preparation. This integrative review examined seven studies from years 2007 to 2016, which utilized various recruitment strategies to increase the awareness of nursing as a career in middle school and address the need for academic rigor. Implications of the review: there is a need for collaboration between nurses and school counselors to design more robust longitudinal studies of middle school interventions for students interested in nursing as a career.
['Williams|Cheryl|C|http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4202-812X']
D002321:Career Choice D002648:Child D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate D005260:Female D006801:Humans D008396:Maryland D010560:Personnel Selection D012574:Schools D013334:Students D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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