
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cho Tang, Kwok 
A1  - Duffield, Christine 
A1  - Chen, Xc 
A1  - Choucair, Sam 
A1  - Creegan, Reta 
A1  - Mak, Christine 
A1  - Lesley, Geraldine 
T1  - Nursing as a career choice: Perceptions of students speaking Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish or Vietnamese at home
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 1999
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
SP  - 107
EP  - 121
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH990107 
N2  - Australia is a multicultural society and nowhere is this more evident than in Sydney where 25 percent of the population speaks a language other than English. In one of the largest area health services in New South Wales, the five most frequently spoken languages at home are Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish or Vietnamese, with these language groups comprising 12percent of Sydney's population. Yet nurses speaking one of these five languages comprise less than 1 percent of the nursing workforce. A cost-effective method of addressing the shortage of nurses speaking languages other than English is to recruit students who already speak another language into the profession.This study examined high school students' perceptions of nursing in order to determine appropriate methods of recruiting students speaking one of these languages.Implications for the design of recruitment campaigns are also discussed. 
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