title: Designing career development programs through understanding of nurses' career needs.
abstract: A nurse's career can be divided into the exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement stages. Because nurses have varied career needs at different career stages, this article uses literature review and in-depth interviews with nurses to understand the features of career stages. The authors detail nurses' career needs in different stages and infer appropriate career development programs in the hospital system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Business Administration, FengChia University, Taichung, Taiwan. plchang@fcu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Pao-Long
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Ying-Chyi
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chou
authors.forename: Fei-Chun
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010934:Planning Techniques; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D014931:Women, Working / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology