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Is there a relationship between personality and choice of nursing specialty: an integrative literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Nursing, November 2014
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Title
Is there a relationship between personality and choice of nursing specialty: an integrative literature review
Published in
BMC Nursing, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12912-014-0040-z
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Authors

Belinda Kennedy, Kate Curtis, Donna Waters

Abstract

Personality is deemed to play a part in an individual's choice of work, with individuals' preferencing a profession or field of work that will satisfy their personal needs. There is limited research exploring the personality characteristics of nurses within clearly defined nursing specialty areas. Retaining nurses within specialty areas has workforce implications when vacancies are unable to be filled by appropriately experienced staff. The aim of the review was to determine the current state of knowledge regarding the personality profiles of nurses in specialty areas of nursing practice.

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 77 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 76 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 23%
Student > Bachelor 12 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 4%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 27 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 21 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 17%
Psychology 6 8%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 27 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2014.
All research outputs
#15,311,799
of 22,772,779 outputs
Outputs from BMC Nursing
#453
of 747 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#214,271
of 361,884 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Nursing
#12
of 18 outputs
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