Marketing nursing as a profession: Integrated marketing strategies to address the nursing shortage

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-19-2010

Abstract

The nursing shortage in the United States is at a crisis level characterized by critical shortages of highly trained nurses and of nursing faculty. Key issues in addressing these shortages include awareness and image-building, along with enhanced outreach programs. Although these issues are related to marketing theory, most studies in this area are based on a vocational choice model. This study was grounded in marketing theory and the results offer a new perspective for addressing the nursing shortage. In-depth interviews conducted with 31 first-year nursing students indicated that there were two distinct segments among nursing students: traditionals and instrumentals. Traditionals were attracted to nursing as a helping profession while instrumentals were interested in career-related rewards such as variety, mobility, and compensation. These findings were discussed in terms of building awareness and marketing programs for nursing students that are integrated across schools of nursing, private foundations and public agencies. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Identifier

77955580110 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Health Marketing Quarterly

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2010.495306

e-ISSN

15450864

ISSN

07359683

PubMed ID

20706896

First Page

291

Last Page

306

Issue

3

Volume

27

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