TY - JOUR
KW - Analysis of Variance
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Career Choice
KW - Chi-Square Distribution
KW - Clinical Competence
KW - Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/organization & administration
KW - Employment/organization & administration
KW - Humans
KW - Longitudinal Studies
KW - Nursing Administration Research
KW - Nursing Education Research
KW - Personnel Selection/organization & administration
KW - Professional Practice Location
KW - Residence Characteristics
KW - Rural Health Services/manpower
KW - Schools, Nursing/organization & administration
KW - Students, Nursing/psychology
KW - Urban Health Services/manpower
KW - Western Australia
AU - D. Playford
AU - B. Wheatland
AU - A. Larson
A1 - 
AB - Education plays a key role in recruitment of health workforce to rural and remote locations. In Australia, Schools of Nursing have set up a variety of educational programmes to encourage rural workforce choices. These programmes include rural campuses and short-term rural placement programmes out of urban campuses. This study compares the relative workforce impacts of rural campus versus short-term rural placements out of urban campus. The single outcome measure - rural or urban location after graduation - showed that the rural school graduated a significantly higher proportion of rural-working graduates (chi(2) 4.46, p = 0.04). However there was no difference in the rural workforce choices of students from rural backgrounds, irrespective of their university location (chi(2) = 1.45, p = 0.23). We conclude that both rural universities and affirmative action for selecting rural students into nursing programmes are effective workforce strategies, but that rural campuses have the added benefit of encouraging under-represented rural students to access university education.
BT - Contemporary nurse : a journal for the Australian nursing profession
C5 - Education & Workforce; Healthcare Disparities
CP - 1
CY - Australia
DO - 10.5172/conu.2010.35.1.068
IS - 1
JF - Contemporary nurse : a journal for the Australian nursing profession
N2 - Education plays a key role in recruitment of health workforce to rural and remote locations. In Australia, Schools of Nursing have set up a variety of educational programmes to encourage rural workforce choices. These programmes include rural campuses and short-term rural placement programmes out of urban campuses. This study compares the relative workforce impacts of rural campus versus short-term rural placements out of urban campus. The single outcome measure - rural or urban location after graduation - showed that the rural school graduated a significantly higher proportion of rural-working graduates (chi(2) 4.46, p = 0.04). However there was no difference in the rural workforce choices of students from rural backgrounds, irrespective of their university location (chi(2) = 1.45, p = 0.23). We conclude that both rural universities and affirmative action for selecting rural students into nursing programmes are effective workforce strategies, but that rural campuses have the added benefit of encouraging under-represented rural students to access university education.
PP - Australia
PY - 2010
SN - 1037-6178; 1037-6178
SP - 68
EP - 76
EP - 
T1 - Does teaching an entire nursing degree rurally have more workforce impact than rural placements?
T2 - Contemporary nurse : a journal for the Australian nursing profession
TI - Does teaching an entire nursing degree rurally have more workforce impact than rural placements?
U1 - Education & Workforce; Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 20636179
U3 - 10.5172/conu.2010.35.1.068
VL - 35
VO - 1037-6178; 1037-6178
Y1 - 2010
ER -