“Why Do Nursing Graduates Ends Up Working in Non-Medical Field”

Nursing is a four-year degree program that is concerned with taking care of ill or injured

patients. It is a profession within health care sector that focused in restoring of health, promotion

of health, preventing of illnesses through curative and rehabilitative.

Being a nurse is not an easy job, aside from learning different medical terms, there is no room for

mistakes as you take care of lives in a serious and compassionate manner. Nurses offer their lives

in taking care of other people— however, there are some issues regarding on how hard nurses

work but they are paid less. And so, there are nursing graduates who decide to change their

careers— usually non-medical fields.

According to Flinkman et al. (2010) literature review, nurses' intention to leave the profession

varied from 4% up to 54% across the studies internationally. Turnover intention appears to be a

multistage process consisting of psychological, cognitive and behavioral components has been

found to predict the actual decision to leave profession.

Nursing is one of the most diverse medical professions yet a demanding and stressful career,

which is why some choose to switch careers— clinical to non-clinical field. There is an

advantage of having a BSN degree against competition in applying jobs and great deals when it

comes to negotiating salary. And nowadays, there are increased opportunities for nurses to leave

traditional patient care environments and work as informatics, analysts, consultants, and as well

as project management, implementation, sales, and leadership roles. According to Takase M.

(2010), those RNs who are leaving the profession and causing nursing shortage leads to

permanent loss of productivity.

Submitted by: BSN – 2A

Catana, Erroll D.
Cope, Gel Marie O.
Esconde, Yvonne Keithlene J.
Tomes, Gwyneth C.