title: What women nursing students want & what nursing education owes them.
abstract: What do women want from nursing? Students have needs, motivations, and expectations related to their selection of a career. What are they? These questions were the subject of a research project in which women nursing students were given the opportunity to speak "in their own voices." The findings were both interesting and disturbing. While some of the results could be anticipated, others were unexpected. Only a brief summation of the research project will be presented here; a detailed description will be reported elsewhere. Instead, we will focus on what the findings reveal and what they imply for the nursing profession.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, College of New Jersey, Trenton, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boughn
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lentini
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D011209:Power, Psychological; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*