title: Part 2: Nurses' career aspirations to management roles: qualitative findings from a national study of Canadian nurses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our aim was to investigate direct-care nurses' interests in formal management roles and factors that facilitate their decision-making.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Based on a projected shortage of nurses by 2022, the profession could be short of 4200 nurse managers in Canada within the next decade. However, no data are currently available that identify nurses' interests in assuming manager roles.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using focus group methodology, we conducted 18 focus groups with 125 staff nurses and managers in four regions across Canada.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Major themes and subthemes influencing nurses' decisions to pursue management roles included personal demographic (education, age, clinical experience and life circumstances), personal disposition (leadership skills, intrinsic rewards and professional commitment) and situation (leadership development opportunities, manager role perceptions and presence of mentors). Although nurses see management roles as positive opportunities, they did not perceive the rewards to be great enough to outweigh their concerns.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings suggested that organizations need to provide support, leadership development and succession opportunities and to redesign manager roles for optimum success.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Leaders need to ensure that they convey positive images of manager roles and actively identify and support staff nurses with leadership potential.
authors: Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. cwong2@uwo.ca
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mesh_terms: D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D002170:Canada; D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003657:Decision Making; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology; D010560:Personnel Selection