title: [The Perspectives and Expectations of New Nursing Graduates Regarding the Hospital-Based Nursing Students Scholarship].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The hospital-based scholarship is a relatively recent incentive used by hospitals to recruit new nursing graduates. Few studies have explored the impact of these scholarship programs on hospital recruitment.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore the perspectives and expectations of new nursing graduates on the application of a hospital-based scholarship for nursing students.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used a qualitative research approach. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 20 new nursing graduates from one university in northern Taiwan in 2013. Content analysis was applied to analyze the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two themes were identified by participants who had applied for a hospital-based scholarship: "aspire to be a nursing-scholarship recipient and work towards this aspiration" and "look forward to receiving a nursing-scholarship and imagine possible features of the future life." One theme was identified by participants who had not applied for a hospital-based scholarship: "agree with the policy of hospital-based scholarship but resist the restrictions on their life."
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although both groups agreed that the scholarship program helped relieve financial stresses, participants who had applied for the scholarship tended to hold positive and aggressive attitudes towards the nursing scholarship. Conversely, participants who had not applied for the scholarship did so due to the perceived conflicts between the scholarship and their career plans. It is recommended to consider providing career-planning assistance to new graduates and to arrange that students who sign a scholarship contract have their clinical practice in their working unit in order to improve adaptation.
authors.affiliation: MSN, RN, Department of Nursing, Po-Jen General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Kuan-Ling
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: PhD, RN, Professor and Chair, School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, and Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, ROC. yftsai@mail.cgu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Yun-Fang
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, and Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Joint Reconstruction, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Jung-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.affiliation: PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, and Research Fellow, Traumatological Division, Department of Orthopedics, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Yea-Ing
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Shyu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords:  hospital-based scholarship ;  new nursing graduates 